Effects of depression on parameters of cell-mediated immunity in patients with digestive tract cancers

Table 3 Multiple factors between depression and nondepression groups (^-x±s)

Parameters	Depressive	Non-depressive	P
	state	state
Anxiety	49.7 ± 7.5b	45.3 ± 6.9	0.003
Pain	6.5 ± 2.8a	4.6 ± 3.2	0.025
Social support	44.0 ± 6.8	44.6 ± 7.7	0.670
Objective support	11.9 ± 3.0	12.5 ± 3.0	0.360
Subjective support	24.8 ± 3.8	24.5 ± 4.4	0.630
Utilization of support	6.8 ± 2.0a	7.6 ± 2.1	0.043
Cells in peripheral blood
Erythrocyte (1012/L)	3.4 ± 1.2	3.8 ± 1.8	0.460
Lymphocyte (0.00)	0.33 ± 0.09a	0.39 ± 0.87	0.032
Granulocyte (0.00)	0.61 ± 0.12	0.56 ± 0.88	0.240
Monocyte (0.00)	0.04 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.05	0.900
Thrombocyte (109/L)	137.5 ± 12.5a	167.7 ± 43.2	0.020
T lymphocyte subsets
CD3 (0.00)	0.53 ± 0.11	0.59 ± 0.11	0.07
CD4 (0.00)	0.27 ± 0.07	0.30 ± 0.11	0.440
CD8 (0.00)	0.32 ± 0.10	0.35 ± 0.10	0.240
Natural killer
CD56 (0.00)	0.26 ± 0.11a	0.29 ± 0.11	0.041

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01, vs nondepression group.