Fear of disease progression and psychological factors in postoperative lung cancer patients

Table 3 Comparison of the fear of progression questionnaire-short form scores among patients with different characteristics, mean ± SD

Indicators	Categories	n	FoP-Q-SF scores (points)	t	P value
Gender	Male	201	35.94 ± 6.67	1.308	0.192
	Female	167	35.02 ± 6.77
Age (years)	< 50	118	34.64 ± 6.41	1.802	0.166
	50-65	200	36.10 ± 6.78
	> 65	50	35.28 ± 7.00
Marital status	Married	292	33.77 ± 6.13	11.320	< 0.001
	Unmarried/divorced/widowed	76	42.22 ± 4.28
Educational level	Primary school and below	58	43.17 ± 4.20	105.700	< 0.001
	Junior high school	124	37.94 ± 5.80
	Senior high school/technical secondary school	102	33.18 ± 4.76
	College degree and above	84	29.51 ± 4.14
Payment method	Employee medical insurance	186	31.84 ± 5.45	107.400	< 0.001
	Resident medical insurance	122	37.58 ± 5.63
	Self-payment	60	42.72 ± 4.34
Tumor stage	Stage I-II	230	33.59 ± 6.40	7.634	< 0.001
	Stage III-IV	138	38.73 ± 6.00
Anxiety status	With anxiety	230	39.25 ± 4.73	19.660	< 0.001
	Without anxiety	138	29.30 ± 4.65
Depression status	With depression	218	37.53 ± 6.13	7.401	< 0.001
	Without depression	150	32.60 ± 6.49

FoP-Q-SF: Fear of progression questionnaire-short form.