Research Article
Female Breast Cancer Patients, Mastectomy-Related Quality of Life: Experience from Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of female breast cancer patients, mastectomy-related quality of life (SPHMMC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018).
| Item | Age range | Number | Percent |
| Age distribution | ≤30 | 17 | 19.8% | 31-40 | 24 | 27.9% | 41-50 | 24 | 27.9% | 51-60 | 14 | 16.3% | >60 | 7 | 8.1% |
| Ethnicity | Amhara | 34 | 39.5% | Oromo | 31 | 36% | Tigre | 6 | 7.0% | Gurage | 5 | 5.8% | Others | 10 | 11.6% |
| Occupation | Housewife | 44 | 51.2% | Government employee | 15 | 15.1% | Merchant | 9 | 10.5% | Others | 20 | 23.3% |
| Marital status | Married | 47 | 54.7% | Single | 9 | 10.5% | Divorced | 18 | 14.0% | Widowed | 12 | 20.9% |
| Educational status | Illiterate | 28 | 32.6% | Read and write | 10 | 11.6% | Elementary school | 10 | 11.6% | High school | 18 | 20.9% | College/university | 20 | 23.3% |
| Residency | Urban | 63 | 73.3% | Rural | 23 | 26.7% |
| Parity | Yes | 71 | 82.6% | No | 15 | 17.4% |
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