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Table 1 Demographic and medical characteristics of the sample (n = 689)

From: Determinants of illness-specific social support and its relation to distress in long-term melanoma survivors

	Number	Percent
Age (lowest 28, highest 93)
≤ 39	52	7.6
40–49	111	16.1
50–59	137	19.9
60–69	133	19.3
70–79	184	26.7
≥ 80	72	10.5
Gender: male	335	48.6
Marital status
Married	520	75.5
Single	49	7.1
Separated/divorced	49	7.1
Widowed	70	10.2
Partnership: yes	570	82.7
Educational level
Primary school	333	48.3
Secondary school	196	28.4
High school	142	20.6
Other	17	2.5
Time since diagnosis (years)
6	104	15.1
7	139	20.2
8	129	18.7
9	107	15.5
10	96	13.8
11	88	12.9
12	26	3.8
Social class
Lower	237	34.4
Middle	234	34.0
Higher	218	31.6
UICC stage at diagnosis^a
1	365	53.0
2	34	4.9
3	7	1.0
Unknown	283	41.1

^aUICC-stage: till 2003 (year of diagnosis) according to TNM 5. ed., Springer publisher 1997, from 2004 (year of diagnosis) TNM 6. ed., Springer publisher 2002; classification according to TNM 6 in A and B were subsumed to the particular stage; missing data: marital status (1), partnership (23), educational level (1), melanoma surgery (9)

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