Acceptance Factors and Psychological Investigation of Clinical Trials in Cancer Patients
Table 1
Demographic characteristic variables and sample distribution.
Variables
Total ()
Likely ()
Not likely ()
Undecided ()
Age
5.343
0.254
≤50
62 (29.4%)
22 (30.1%)
20 (37.1%)
20 (23.8%)
51-70
106 (50.2%)
34 (46.6%)
28 (51.9%)
44 (52.4%)
>70
43 (20.4%)
17 (23.3%)
6 (11.1%)
20 (23.8%)
Gender
2.494
0.287
Male
109 (51.7%)
41 (56.2%)
23 (42.6%)
45 (53.6%)
Female
102 (48.3%)
32 (43.8%)
31 (57.4%)
39 (46.4%)
Education
5.827
0.437
Uneducated
61 (28.9%)
18 (24.7%)
12 (22.2%)
31 (36.9%)
Junior high school and below
114 (54.0%)
40 (54.8%)
34 (63.0%)
40 (47.6%)
High school and junior college
30 (14.2%)
13 (17.8%)
7 (13.0%)
10 (11.9%)
Undergraduate and above
6 (2.8%)
2 (2.7%)
1 (1.9%)
3 (3.6%)
Marital status
2.640
0.640
Married
188 (89.1%)
68 (93.2%)
48 (88.9%)
72 (85.7%)
Divorced & Unmarried
10 (4.7%)
2 (2.8%)
2 (3.7%)
6 (7.2%)
Widowed
13 (6.2%)
3 (4.1%)
4 (7.4%)
6 (7.1%)
Residence
2.786
0.594
Urban
40 (19.0%)
10 (13.7%)
13 (24.1%)
17 (20.2%)
Town
49 (23.2%)
19 (26.0%)
10 (18.5%)
20 (23.8%)
Countryside
122 (57.8%)
44 (60.3%)
31 (57.4%)
47 (56.0%)
Monthly income
3.956
0.413
<1000
89 (42.2%)
27 (37.0%)
27 (50.0%)
35 (41.7%)
1000-5000
107 (50.7%)
38 (52.1%)
24 (44.4%)
45 (53.6%)
>5000
15 (6.2%)
8 (10.9%)
3 (5.6%)
4 (4.8%)
Medical payment
0.352
0.838
Medical insurance
200 (94.8%)
69 (94.5%)
52 (96.3%)
79 (94.0%)
At own expense
11 (5.2%)
4 (5.5%)
2 (3.7%)
5 (6.0%)
Treatment time
12.501
0.052
<3 months
46(21.8%)
8(11.0%)
15(27.8%)
23 (27.4%)
Three months to one year
79 (37.4%)
26 (35.6%)
24 (44.4%)
29 (34.5%)
One to three years
57 (27.0%)
26 (35.6%)
9 (16.7%)
22 (26.2%)
>3 years
29 (13.7%)
13 (17.8%)
6 (11.1%)
10 (11.9%)
Awareness
12.339
0.002
Yes
64 (30.3%)
33 (45.2%)
10 (18.5%)
21 (25.0%)
No
147 (68.7%)
40 (54.8%)
44 (81.5%)
63 (75.0%)
Subject
53.321
<0.001
Yes
30 (14.2%)
28 (38.4%)
0 (0.0%)
2 (2.4%)
No
181 (85.8%)
45 (61.6%)
54 (100.0%)
82 (97.6%)
Notes: education, level of education received; marriage, marital status; residence, place of residence; medical payment, medical payment method; treatment time, the duration of the patient’s treatment; awareness, patient’s awareness of the clinical trial; subjects, patient’s historical experience in clinical trials (the results were obtained through appropriate statistical processing herein).
