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Table 3 Correlation Between SWB and Death Anxiety, Participant Characteristicsa

From: Exploring the relationship between spiritual well-being and death anxiety in patients with gynecological cancer: a cross-section study

  

Death Anxiety

Existential

RwS

RwO

RwSGb

Global SWBc

Death Anxiety

Continuous

-

-0.257**

-0.389**

-0.177**

-0.028

-0.354**

Participant Characteristics

  Age

Continuous

-0.135**

-0.029

-0.040

0.080

0.130

0.142**

  Marriage Status

 

-1.349

-0.130

-0.002

-2.215*

-0.942

-0.811

 

Married

5.24 (3.18)

73.93 (13.94)

73.96 (13.36)

75.63 (13.76)

60.48 (11.81)

73.49 (19.97)

 

Others

5.77 (3.18)

73.59 (13.52)

73.45 (11.19)

71.73 (13.20)

59.20 (14.63)

72.42 (17.83)

  Working Status

 

2.110

1.346

0.255

5.135

1.479

16.690**c

 

Retired

5.11 (3.06)

74.28 (13.94)

73.40 (12.67)

76.34 (12.96)

62.02 (11.93)

78.39 (18.99)

 

Laid-off

5.27 (3.36)

73.19 (13.93)

74.45 (14.55)

73.88 (14.09)

59.37 (12.45)

71.87 (20.36)

 

Employed

5.59 (2.99)

74.73 (13.74)

73.45 (10.63)

76.10 (13.80)

60.39 (11.90)

70.65 (18.36)

  Education Background

 

8.663*c

0.423

0.785

3.007

0.185

0.604

 

junior and below

4.95 (3.22)

73.59 (13.88)

74.26 (14.34)

74.34 (14.27)

57.75 (11.97)

70.30 (15.20)

 

senior middle school

5.45 (2.89)

73.88 (13.12)

72.85 (12.03)

76.49 (11.93)

57.89 (12.23)

69.45 (25.43)

 

college and above

5.88 (3.25)

74.47 (14.51)

74.02 (11.31)

75.61 (13.98)

58.45 (12.18)

69.24 (23.62)

  Primary Cancer

 

0.500

5.994

8.070

2.620

3.217

0.241

 

Ovarian

5.31 (3.28)

73.74 (14.69)

73.53 (14.04)

75.83 (13.82)

59.82 (12.08)

72.56 (20.85)

 

Cervical

5.37 (3.15)

73.96 (13.30)

74.10 (11.56)

74.02 (14.38)

59.07 (13.29)

75.03 (17.86)

 

Endometrial

5.11 (3.02)

76.85 (11.34)

73.29 (13.32)

76.25 (12.70)

64.25 (12.06)

75.91 (19.14)

 

Fallopian Tube

5.39 (3.41)

73.03 (14.72)

72.11 (11.95)

74.34 (14.58)

62.14 (10.69)

75.29 (20.38)

  Stage of Cancer

 

4.496

1.748

5.411

0.862

6.640

4.729

 

I

5.59 (3.12)

73.57 (14.59)

75.63 (11.16)

74.21 (13.73)

55.63 (11.85)

70.53 (22.98)

 

II

5.79 (3.22)

72.06 (12.86)

71.29 (12.56)

74.95 (13.46)

58.65 (12.50)

67.73 (25.34)

 

III

5.11 (3.34)

74.58 (14.15)

74.06 (14.18)

75.41 (13.63)

58.90 (12.00)

71.09 (26.31)

 

IV

5.14 (2.89)

74.01 (13.40)

73.81 (12.66)

75.49 (14.21)

57.70 (11.94)

68.25 (23.00)

  Time after Diagnose

 

1.678

1.324

1.334

2.220

4.538

0.374

 

1 y or below

5.29 (3.22)

73.98 (13.68)

74.30 (13.71)

4.68 (13.74)

7.58 (12.34)

69.71 (25.19)

 

1–3 y

5.68 (3.32)

74.23 (15.19)

72.96 (10.84)

76.32 (14.21)

60.26 (11.07)2

68.42 (26.01)

 

3–5 y

4.60 (2.54)

73.19 (14.71)

72.00 (10.22)

76.25 (13.93)

56.50 (11.61)

72.38 (19.83)

 

more than 5 y

5.30 (2.74)

71.92 (12.89)

71.52 (10.60)

78.80 (11.64)

60.00 (9.53)

73.91 (18.60)

  Religious Belief

 

-0.533

-0.438

-0.971

-0.380

-1.688

-0.114

 

Yes

5.54 (3.19)

73.07 (13.99)

75.36 (12.93)

74.55 (14.29)

63.30 (13.50)

72.49 (21.47)

 

No

5.28 (3.18)

73.98 (13.88)

73.75 (13.12)

75.20 (13.69)

59.41 (11.58)

73.45 (19.52)

  Living with a Partner

 

-0.848

-1.893

-0.933

-2.752*

-0.173

-2.970*

 

Yes

5.22 (3.10)

74.59 (13.92)

74.29 (13.78)

76.08 (13.43)

60.20 (11.64)

74.90 (19.25)

 

No

5.53 (3.39)

72.05 (13.64)

72.86 (11.09)

72.64 (14.25)

60.69 (13.49)

69.30 (20.32)

  1. Abbreviations: RwS Relationship with self; RwO Relationship with others; RwSG Relationship with Someone/something Greater; SWB spiritual well-being
  2. aData were presented as Mean (SD); Mann–Whitney U tests were used for two independent samples; Kruskal- Wallis H tests were used for more than two independent samples; The correlation between continuous data was calculated using the Spearman correlation coefficient
  3. bGlobal SWB was only for those who responded to this question (n = 557)
  4. cMultiple comparisons were corrected for significance using the Bonferroni method. The differences between the distribution of Global SWB were statistically significant of retired and laid off (adjusted P = 0.002), retired and employed (adjusted P = 0.005). The difference in the distribution of Death Anxiety between junior and below and college and above (adjusted P = 0.014) was statistically significant
  5. *indicates P < 0.05, **indicates P < 0.001
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