Cancer symptom awareness and barriers to medical help seeking in Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Sample socio-demographic characteristics

	All (n = 2,173)
	Mean	SD	%	n
Age	12.4	0.55
Gender
Male			47.5	1,032
Female			50.7	1,102
Missing			1.8	39
Knew someone with cancer
Yes			58.3	1,266
No			36.0	783
Missing			5.7	124
Ethnicity
White			84.0	1,826
BME^#			14.1	306
Mixed			3.5	75
Asian			6.0	131
Black			2.6	57
Chinese			0.7	15
Other			1.3	28
Missing			1.9	41
Deprivation (SIMD ^† )
Quintile 1			55.5	1,205
Quintiles 2-5			34.0	739
Missing			10.5	229
Anxiety (HADS ^‡ )
Total score (Mean (SD))			7.2	(4.19)
No emotional disorder			66.3	1,212
Possible emotional disorder			18.0	329
Probable emotional disorder			15.7	286

Notes: ^#Black and Minority Ethnic. ^†Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.
^‡Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (excludes 346 cases with incomplete anxiety sub-scale data).

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