Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety amongst Cancer Patients in a Hospital Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Cross tabulation of various significant factors to the patients’ depression and anxiety with value < 0.05.

Patient’s factors cross tabulated to patient’s anxiety and depression	Patients not screened as anxious and depressed AKUADS score < 19	Patients screened as anxious and depressed AKUADS score > 20	Total number of patients in that category	value
Education				0.011
Uneducated	58	85 (85/13 = 59%)	143
Primary	18	15 (15/33 = 45%)	33
Middle	28	19 (19/47 = 40%)	47
Secondary	19	5 (5/24 = 20%)	24
Higher	10	8 (8/18 = 44%)	18
Bachelors	11	10 (10/21 = 48%)	21
Masters	9	4 (4/13 = 31%)	13
Unknown	1	0 (0/1 = 0%)	1
Occurrence of cancer in the family				0.047
Single person	14	7 (7/21 = 33%)	21
Multiple persons	4	7 (7/11 = 64%)	11
None	131	132 (132/263 = 50%)	263
Unknown	5	0 (0/5 = 0%)	5
Pain scale				<0.001
0, no pain	58	21 (21/79 = 27%)	79
1–3, mild pain	56	42 (42/98 = 43%)	98
4–6, moderate pain	30	65 (65/95 = 68%)	95
7–10, severe pain	10	18 (18/28 = 64%)	28
Do the patients think they themselves are anxious and depressed?				<0.001
Yes	70	118 (118/188 = 63%)	188
No	84	28 (28/112 = 25%)	112
Did they seek treatment for their anxiety and depression from any source?				0.019
Yes	18	26 (26/44 = 59%)	44
No	127	119 (119/246 = 48%)	246
Unanswered	9	1 (1/10 = 10%)	10