Table 1 Characteristics of participants (N = 1192)
Variable | Group | N | % |
|---|---|---|---|
Age | <  40 | 235 | 19.71% |
40–49 | 454 | 38.09% | |
50–59 | 401 | 33.64% | |
≥ 60 | 102 | 8.56% | |
Time since diagnosis (months) | ≤ 12 | 273 | 22.9% |
13–24 | 583 | 48.9% | |
25–60 | 277 | 23.2% | |
≧ 61 | 59 | 5.0% | |
Marital status | Single | 18 | 1.5% |
Married | 1112 | 93.3% | |
Divorced | 38 | 3.2% | |
Widowed | 21 | 1.7% | |
Cohabitation | 3 | 0.3% | |
Education level | Primary school | 229 | 19.2% |
Secondary school | 516 | 43.3% | |
High school or technical secondary school | 202 | 16.9% | |
University | 236 | 19.8% | |
Master’s degree or above | 9 | 0.8% | |
Employment | Employed | 297 | 24.9% |
Unemployed | 895 | 75.1% | |
Occupation | Unemployed | 895 | 75.1% |
Public institution | 163 | 13.7% | |
Privately or individually owned business | 34 | 2.9% | |
Worker | 23 | 1.9% | |
Farmer | 5 | 0.4% | |
Private enterprise | 72 | 6.0% | |
Place of residence | City | 441 | 37.0% |
Township | 329 | 27.6% | |
Village | 422 | 35.4% | |
Family income status (RMB/month/per person) | <2000 | 201 | 16.9% |
2000–4999 | 359 | 30.1% | |
5000–9999 | 432 | 36.2% | |
10,000–19,999 | 183 | 15.4% | |
≥ 20,000 | 17 | 1.4% | |
Payment | Free medical treatment | 29 | 2.4% |
Medical insurance | 482 | 40.4% | |
New rural cooperative medical insurance | 510 | 42.8% | |
Self-paying | 83 | 7.0% | |
Serious disease insurance or commercial insurance | 88 | 7.4% | |
Stage of breast cancer | I | 254 | 21.3% |
II | 567 | 47.6% | |
III | 279 | 23.4% | |
IV | 92 | 7.7% | |
Treatment | Surgery therapy | 109 | 9.2% |
Surgery + chemotherapy | 385 | 32.3% | |
Surgery + radiation therapy | 14 | 1.2% | |
Surgery + chemotherapy + radiation therapy | 211 | 17.7% | |
Surgery + chemotherapy + radiation therapy + hormone therapy | 179 | 15.0% | |
Surgery + targeted therapy | 41 | 3.4% | |
Othersa | 253 | 21.2% | |
Family history of cancer | Yes | 63 | 5.3% |
No | 1129 | 94.7% |