Attitude towards informed consent practice in a developing country: a community-based assessment of the role of educational status

Table 3 Feeling on being informed of all that could go wrong with a procedure

Response	Educational status
	University/polytechnic	Secondary	primary	No formal education	Total	χ ²for trend [P value]
	N = 355	N = 1515	N = 225	N = 351	N = 2446
Feel safe and consider the doctor competent	228 [64.2%]	801 [52.9%]	80 [35.6%]	49 [14.0%]	1158 [47.3%]	222.33 [<0.01]*
Feel unsafe and consider the doctor incompetent	28 [7.9%]	219 [14.5%]	98 [43.6%]	216 [61.5%]	561 [22.9%]	421.41 [<0.01]*
Will simply go to another doctor	73 [20.6%]	350 [23.1%]	42 [18.7%]	72 [20.5%]	537 [22.0%]	0.46 (0.50)
Others	26 [7.3%]	145 [9.6%]	5 [2.2%]	14 [4.0%]	190 [7.8%]	8.86 [<0.01]*

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