Prevalence and its associated psychological variables of symptoms of depression and anxiety among ovarian cancer patients in China: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Mean scores of symptoms of depression and anxiety according to demographic and clinical variables

Variables	HADS-Depression symptoms	F/t value	P value	HADS-Anxiety symptoms	F/t value	P value
Demographic variables
Age (years)		2.928	0.056		1.77	0.173
≤45	5.53 ± 3.41			5.84 ± 3.50
46–55	6.68 ± 3.74			7.26 ± 4.20
≥ 56	7.58 ± 3.79			7.77 ± 4.23
Marital status		0.075	0.785		0.138	0.711
Married/living with a partner	7.03 ± 3.88			7.34 ± 4.23
Single/widowed/divorced	6.78 ± 2.62			7.72 ± 3.63
Educational level		5.049	0.002		3.422	0.018
Primary school	8.26 ± 3.34			8.17 ± 3.95
Middle school	7.10 ± 3.79			7.64 ± 4.08
High school	6.56 ± 4.04			7.29 ± 4.61
Junior college or above	4.96 ± 3.23			5.12 ± 3.42
Income (Yuan per month)		1.668	0.159		2.940	0.022
≤1000	7.37 ± 3.26			9.07 ± 3.97
1001–2000	7.36 ± 3.83			7.34 ± 4.03
2001–3000	7.20 ± 4.29			7.29 ± 4.42
3001–4000	6.67 ± 2.79			7.67 ± 4.36
≥ 4001	4.94 ± 3.23			4.83 ± 2.73
Clinical variables
Cancer stage		5.73	0.004		4.308	0.015
I	5.11 ± 3.08			5.54 ± 2.95
II	7.05 ± 2.66			8.11 ± 3.73
III + IV	7.47 ± 3.92			7.72 ± 4.37
Treatment type		0.930	0.427		1.12	0.344
No treatment	5.54 ± 3.02			5.85 ± 2.67
Chemotherapy	7.20 ± 3.98			7.83 ± 4.22
Surgery	6.25 ± 3.02			6.25 ± 3.57
Combined treatment	7.16 ± 3.81			7.43 ± 4.32
Metastasis		0.000	0.992		0.000	0.988
No	7.01 ± 3.87			7.38 ± 4.28
Yes	7.00 ± 2.15			7.36 ± 2.37

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