Patients’ Responses to the Sudden Interruption of Chemotherapy During the Outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Table 1 The Characteristics of Patients and Results of Univariate Logistic Regression (n=141)

		Number of Patients (%)	Anxiety Score (Mean±SD)	P value
Gender	Male	61 (43.3%)	12.64±4.16
	Female	80 (56.7%)	10.21±5.33	0.004
Age	≤60	85 (60.3%)	11.16±4.97
	>60	56 (39.7%)	11.41±5.06	0.776
Marital status	Married	77 (54.6%)	11.79±4.98
	Widowed or divorced	64 (45.4%)	10.62±4.97	0.167
Place of residence	Rural	24 (17.0%)	12.83±4.97
	Urban	117 (83.0%)	10.94±4.95	0.09
Tumor location	Lung	44 (31.2%)	14.14±3.96
	Breast	31 (22.0%)	7.90±4.69
	Colorectal	37 (26.2%)	10.51±5.06
	Gastric	29 (20.6%)	11.45±4.21	<0.001
Advanced patients	Yes	48 (34.0%)	15.35±2.18
	No	93 (66.0%)	9.15±4.71	<0.001
Education	Bachelor or above	30 (21.3%)	8.73±4.46
	Others	111 (78.7%)	11.95±4.92	0.002
Incomes*	≥20	19 (13.5%)	11.05±5.20
	<20	122 (86.5%)	11.30±4.98	0.845
Health insurance	Some	83 (58.9%)	10.59±5.24
	None	58 (41.1%)	12.22±4.47	0.055
Switch to oral chemotherapy	Yes	115 (81.6%)	10.57±4.94
	No	26 (18.4%)	14.31±4.07	<0.001
CAM	With	85 (60.3%)	10.00±5.19
	Without	56 (39.7%)	13.18±4.01	<0.001
Knowing the purpose of chemotherapy	Nothing	96 (68.1%)	10.28±4.85
	Clear	45 (31.9%)	13.36±4.67	0.001
Chronic pain	With	28 (19.9%)	12.36±4.36
	Without	113 (80.1%)	10.99±5.12	0.196
Vein access	Without	21 (14.9%)	11.24±5.81
	PICC	62 (44.0%)	10.21±5.15
	Port	58 (41.1%)	12.40±4.29	0.09

Note: *Average annual household income (thousand US Dollar).

Table 2 Logistic Regression Analysis of Univariate Characteristics

	P value	HR 95% CI
		Low	High
Gender	0.305	−2.042	0.645
Tumor location	0.038	−1.323	−0.039
Switch to oral chemotherapy	0.042	−3.278	−0.064
CAM	0.03	−2.737	−0.141
Advanced patients	0.001	1.176	2.098
Education	0.455	−0.429	0.193
Knowing the purpose of chemotherapy	0.013	0.184	1.542

Figure 1 Counseling outcomes in 10 non-oral chemotherapy lung cancer patients with high anxiety score. *P=0.001.