Correlation between psychological, family social support, and home nursing quality for an implanted venous access port

Table 4 Univariate analysis of quality of life in home nursing of cancer patients with an implantable intravenous infusion port

Items	Group	Overall health	Statistical value	P value
Age (years)	18-44	70.59 ± 16.31	1.3611	0.259
	45-59	67.94 ± 18.95
	≥ 60	73.20 ± 15.36
Sex	Female	70.99 ± 16.06	0.6652	0.507
	Male	69.26 ± 18.46
Education	Junior high school and below	61.00 ± 17.45	20.7621	< 0.001
	High school (including technical secondary school)	70.67 ± 15.66
	University (including college) and above	79.80 ± 13.46
Marital status	Married	70.95 ± 18.22	0.8302	0.407
	Single/divorced/widowed	68.75 ± 15.94
Average monthly family income (yuan)	≤ 3000	63.55 ± 16.39	7.5042	< 0.001
	> 3000	81.09 ± 12.80
Primary caregiver	Spouse	69.33 ± 17.75	1.9331	0.126
	Children	65.43 ± 15.64
	Parent	74.59 ± 16.75
	Other	72.10 ± 18.40
Tumor type	Breast cancer	71.37 ± 16.21	0.9961	0.422
	Lung cancer	71.50 ± 14.87
	Colorectal cancer	71.18 ± 18.68
	Ovarian cancer	69.20 ± 17.03
	Gastric cancer	63.94 ± 20.38
	Other	73.30 ± 20.59
IVAP implantation site	Upper arm	68.55 ± 17.91	0.8132	0.417
	Chest wall	70.80 ± 17.10
Implantation time (month)	< 3	71.51 ± 18.94	0.4181	0.659
	3-6	68.88 ± 16.84
	> 6	70.28 ± 15.43
Whether to accept health education	Yes	70.19 ± 17.58	0.3152	0.753
	No	68.62 ± 14.48

¹ANOVA results.

²t-test results.

IVAP: Implanted venous access port.