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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of respondents, N = 109

From: The Intensive Care Lifeboat: a survey of lay attitudes to rationing dilemmas in neonatal intensive care

Age

Mean ± SD, range

40.1 ± 11.6, 23.0–69.0

Sex

Male

42 (38.5 %)

Female

67 (61.5 %)

Parental status

Parent

64 (58.7 %)

Non-parent

45 (41.3 %)

Marital status

Single

55 (50.5 %)

Married/De Facto

54 (49.5 %)

Highest level of education

Primary

3 (2.8 %)

Secondary

52 (47.7 %)

Tertiary

54 (49.5 %)

Religiosity

Non-religious (scores 1–3)

49 (41.1 %)

Scale of 1–7: 1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree

Neutral (score of 4)

8 (6.7 %)

Religious (scores 5–7)

52 (43.8 %)

Country of origin

United States (US)

95 (87.2 %)

Non-US

14 (12.8 %)