O statistical methods
cancer
CANCER
The data was analyzed using the SPSS Statistics (v.20) software total of 69 cancer patients out of 78 were included in the data analysis as nine cancer patients were lost to follow -up. Questionnaire was checked for completeness just after the participants returned it. The descriptive statistics (viz., frequency distribution, mean, and standard deviation) were used to describe and categorize the data. Inferential statistics including the Chi-square test, independent-samples t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used to test the research hypothesis. Wilcoxon signed-rank test and paired-samples t-tests were further employed for intra-group comparisons. The normality of the quantitative variables was correspondingly assessed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The significance level of 0.05 was set for all the tests in this study.