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Table 4 Associations of various factors with whether doctors would assist suicide were it legal to do so.

From: Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

  

N

Crude Relative Risks (95% CIs)

Corrected Relative Risks (95% CIs)

   

Disagree vs Agree

Disagree vs Neither

Disagree vs Agree

Disagree vs Neither

Sex

Male

256

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Female

116

1.20 (0.73 to 1.97)

1.03 (0.52 to 2.03)

0.85 (0.48 to 1.51)

0.75 (0.36 to 1.59)

Specialty

Consultant

184

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

GP

188

1.62 (1.02 to 2.56)

2.08 (1.08 to 3.98)

1.39 (0.79 to 2.45)

1.60 (0.74 to 3.44)

Care for dying

Daily

30

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Weekly

77

1.44 (0.53 to 3.91)

0.77 (0.15 to 4.03)

1.24 (0.42 to 3.65)

0.71 (0.13 to 3.98)

 

Monthly

116

0.63 (0.25 to 1.57)

0.52 (0.11 to 2.55)

0.53 (0.20 to 1.44)

0.40 (0.08 to 2.03)

 

Yearly

72

0.64 (0.24 to 1.69)

0.23 (0.05 to 1.13)

0.60 (0.21 to 1.73)

0.20 (0.04 to 1.01)

 

<Yearly

37

0.73 (0.24 to 2.19)

0.33 (0.06 to 1.85)

0.89 (0.27 to 2.94)

0.37 (0.06 to 2.16)

 

Never

35

0.23 (0.08 to 0.70)

0.27 (0.04 to 1.75)

0.30 (0.09 to 1.00)

0.34 (0.05 to 2.26)

 

Missing

5

Empty Cell

0.30 (0.02 to 4.42)

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

   

Test for trend: P = 0.001

Test for trend: P = 0.015

Test for trend: P = 0.024

Test for trend: P = 0.061

Religious

No

110

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Not very

121

2.13 (1.20 to 3.78)

0.86 (0.40 to 1.87)

2.07 (1.14 to 3.74)

0.77 (0.35 to 1.70)

 

Fairly

102

3.82 (2.06 to 7.09)

2.85 (1.10 to 7.35)

3.47 (1.82 to 6.64)

2.54 (0.95 to 6.76)

 

Very

27

Empty Cell

8.47 (1.05 to 68.2)

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

 

Missing

11

3.77 (0.72 to 19.61)

1.95 (0.22 to 17.65)

2.82 (0.50 to 16.0)

1.23 (0.13 to 11.93)

   

Test for trend: P < 0.0005

Test for trend: P = 0.002

Test for trend: P < 0.0005

Test for trend: P = 0.003

Years in post

0-

33

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

10-

160

0.58 (0.23 to 1.46)

0.94 (0.32 to 2.78)

0.46 (0.17 to 1.26)

0.77 (0.25 to 2.42)

 

20-

127

0.69 (0.27 to 1.76)

1.10 (0.36 to 3.36)

0.44 (0.15 to 1.25)

0.66 (0.20 to 2.23)

 

30-

48

0.32 (0.11 to 0.90)

1.25 (0.29 to 5.31)

0.32 (0.10 to 1.04)

1.40 (0.27 to 7.30)

 

Missing

4

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

   

Test for trend: P = 0.086

Test for trend: P = 0.63

Test for trend: P = 0.10

Test for trend: P = 0.90

Looked at Bill

No

252

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

118

1.63 (0.99 to 2.71)

1.89 (0.91 to 3.93)

1.27 (0.72 to 2.26)

1.39 (0.63 to 3.03)

 

Missing

2

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

Empty Cell

 

Total:

372

    
  1. Note 1: Tests for trend exclude the rows representing missing values.
  2. Note 2: Tests and estimates significant at the 5% level are shown in bold.