Factor | Positive attitude to statement ‘Euthanasia should be allowed for people who are tired of living, without having a serious disease.’* | Personally agreeing with PAS as described in vignette† | Positive attitude to statement ‘The oldest old should be able to obtain drugs that enable them, if they wish, to end their life.’* |
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OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | |
Demographic characteristics | |||
Age (per year) | 1.00 (0.99 to 1.01) | 1.02 (1.00 to 1.05)‡ | 1.00 (0.99 to 1.01) |
Male (vs female) | 0.92 (0.69 to 1.24) | 0.59 (0.30 to 1.13) | 0.84 (0.65 to 1.09) |
High education (vs no high education) | 1.63 (1.15 to 2.31) | 0.95 (0.44 to 2.06) | 1.63 (1.19 to 2.21) |
Having no religious beliefs (vs having religious beliefs) | 1.67 (1.25 to 2.23) | 2.04 (1.05 to 3.96) | 2.20 (1.70 to 2.84) |
Living with partner (vs living without partner) | 0.77 (0.55 to 1.08) | 0.98 (0.45 to 2.14) | 0.89 (0.66 to 1.20) |
Health | |||
Good self-perceived health status (vs not having good self-perceived health) | 1.23 (0.83 to 1.82) | 0.88 (0.34 to 2.25) | 1.31 (0.92 to 1.86) |
Attitudes | |||
Having little trust in physicians to comply with their wishes about end of life (vs having (some) trust in physicians) | 1.60 (1.16 to 2.20) | 2.75 (1.30 to 5.81) | 2.44 (1.83 to 3.26) |
Preference for making one's own end-of-life decisions (vs no preference for making one's own end-of-life decisions) | 1.74 (1.28 to 2.36) | 1.69 (0.86 to 3.31) | 1.84 (1.40 to 2.32) |
Adjusted ORs were estimated by multivariate logistic regression analysis; method=Enter. (ie, each independent variable was entered at the same time).
Bold indicates statistically significant ORs.
*These analyses included 1.187 respondents with complete information on all variables. Positive attitude has been defined as agreeing (agree and totally agree) with statement.
†These analyses included 194 respondents with complete information on all variables.
‡Because of rounding, 1.00 is included in CI, but this OR is not statistically significant.
PAS, physician-assisted suicide.