Efficacy of combined psychological and physical nursing in preventing peripherally inserted central catheter-related thrombosis in gastric cancer patients

Table 1 Comparison of general information of two groups of patients

General information	Observation (n = 30)	Control (n = 35)	F/t/χ2	P value
Average age (years), mean ± SD	52.33 ± 5.84	53.18 ± 6.42	0.559	0.578
Gender (n)
Male	19	20	0.258	0.612
Female	11	15	-	-
Catheter vein (n)
Median cubital vein	11	13	0.511	0.775
Subclavian vein	10	14	-	-
Venae magnalis	9	8	-	-
Average BMI (kg/m2), mean ± SD	21.11 ± 3.11	22.02 ± 3.12	1.174	0.245
TNM staging
T1 stage	15	20	1.389	0.499
T2 stage	6	5
T3 stage	9	6

BMI: Body mass index; TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis.