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Table 2 Distribution of demographic, life-style and psychosocial factors among respondents having registered (confirmed cancer) and only self-reported cancer (non-confirmed cancer)

From: Self-reported rather than registered cancer is associated with psychosocial strain

	Confirmed	Non-confirmed	P-value
	N=330 %	N=140 %
Gender			0.687
Female	73.9	72.1
Male	26.1	27.9
Age-group			<0.001
55-59	58.8	42.9
45-49	27.3	26.4
35-39	8.8	20.7
25-29	4.8	10.0
Education			0.296
Lower	64.5	69.6
Higher	35.5	30.4
Marital status			0.806
Marriage/cohabitation	70.3	71.4
Single/widow/divorced	29.7	28.6
Living			0.947
With ≥1 persons	76.5	76.8
With 0 persons	23.5	23.2
Obesity			0.003
BMI < 30	70.9	56.7
BMI ≥ 30	29.1	43.3
Smoking			0.105
No	46.8	42.4
Quitted	35.1	28.8
Regular (<5 cigarettes/day)	1.6	2.4
Regular (≥5 cigarettes/day)	16.6	26.4
Alcohol use			0.408
None or minimal	40.1	40.7
Moderate	55.7	52.1
Heavy	4.3	7.1
Exercise activity			0.593
Much (met≥2)	71.0	68.6
Little (met<2)	29.0	31.4
Stress			0.102
Low	27.7	24.6
Moderate	51.1	44.8
High	21.2	30.6
Depression			0.044
Beck 0-19	93.8	88.2
Beck ≥20	6.2	11.8
Hostility			0.415
Low	24.2	19.3
Moderate	56.0	62.1
High	19.9	18.6
Optimism			0.096
High	32.8	23.9
Moderate	46.0	47.8
Low	21.2	28.4
Life satisfaction			0.466
High	18.7	19.6
Moderate	58.6	52.9
Low	22.7	27.5
Childhood adversities (n)			0.293
0	33.7	26.4
1	27.7	30.0
2-6	38.6	43.6
Negative events			0.515
Few (0-2)	72.3	69.3
Many (>2)	27.7	30.7
Positive events			0.456
Many (>2)	83.8	86.6
Few (0-2)	16.2	13.4
Social support (points)			<0.001
≥18	8.2	5.7
12-17	29.7	12.9
6-11	53.6	63.6
0-5	8.5	17.9
Support type			0.231
Gets as much as gives	41.1	35.5
Gets more than gives	27.9	25.4
Gets less than gives	31.0	39.1

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