Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics and the level of resilience among oral cancer patients (n = 230)
From: Resilience and associated factors among Chinese patients diagnosed with oral cancer
Variables | N (%) | Resilience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (SD) | T /F | P | ||
Age |  |  | −0.010 | 0.992 |
 < 60 years | 156 (67.8) | 67.93 (13.04) |  |  |
 ≥60 years | 74 (32.2) | 67.95 (11.87) |  |  |
Gender |  |  | − 0.743 | 0.458 |
 Male | 134 (58.3) | 67.39 (12.58) |  |  |
 Female | 96 (41.7) | 68.67 (12.71) |  |  |
Marriage | Â | Â | 2.069 | 0.047 |
 Single/divorced /widowed | 26 (11.3) | 67.41 (12.84) |  |  |
 Married/cohabitation | 204 (88.7) | 72.00 (10.37) |  |  |
BMI | Â | Â | 1.018 | 0.363 |
 <18.5 | 8 (3.5) | 61.75 (22.62) |  |  |
 18.5–23.9 | 118 (51.3) | 67.96 (12.10) |  |  |
 ≥24 | 104 (45.2) | 68.36 (12.26) |  |  |
Education | Â | Â | 3.493 | 0.032 |
 Middle school or lower | 100 (43.5) | 67.26 (11.75) |  |  |
 High or secondary school | 60 (26.1) | 65.42 (14.18) |  |  |
 College or university | 70 (30.4) | 71.01 (11.97) |  |  |
Job status | Â | Â | 0.524 | 0.586 |
 Regular employee | 133 (57.8) | 67.71 (12.73) |  |  |
 Retirement | 34 (14.8) | 66.47 (11.58) |  |  |
 Unemployed /temporary workers | 63 (27.4) | 69.14 (12.93) |  |  |
Income |  |  | −1.963 | 0.051 |
 < 3000 | 141 (61.3) | 66.64 (12.34) |  |  |
 ≥3000 | 89 (38.7) | 69.97 (12.93) |  |  |
Residence | Â | Â | 1.567 | 0.119 |
 Urban | 145 (63.0) | 68.92 (12.57) |  |  |
 Rural | 84 (37.0) | 66.22 (12.62) |  |  |
Smoking | Â | Â | 1.543 | 0.124 |
 No | 118 (51.3) | 69.17 (13.16) |  |  |
 Yes | 112 (48.7) | 66.61 (12.00) |  |  |
Drinking alcohol | Â | Â | 0.960 | 0.338 |
 No | 135 (58.7) | 68.59 (12.60) |  |  |
 Yes | 95 (41.30) | 66.97 (12.67) |  |  |
Type of treatment | Â | Â | 0.465 | 0.643 |
 Radical surgery | 210 (91.3) | 68.33 (12.75) |  |  |
 Alleviative treatment | 20 (8.7) | 66.89 (10.32) |  |  |
Family history | Â | Â | 1.053 | 0.293 |
 No | 215 (93.5) | 68.17 (12.69) |  |  |
 Yes | 15 (6.5) | 64.60 (12.30) |  |  |
Distant metastasis | Â | Â | 2.717 | 0.007 |
 No | 216 (94.0) | 68.61 (12.16) |  |  |
 Yes | 14 (6.0) | 58.67 (15.28) |  |  |