Medical students and controversial ethical issues: results from the multicenter study SBRAME

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 4 Medical students opinions on prescription of birth control, embryonic stem cell use, adult stem cell use and human cloning

Ethical issue	OR	95% CI	p
Prescription of birth control ^a
Undergraduate year	0.849	0.749-0.963	0.011
Number of medical students in the university	0.993	0.989-0.996	<0.001
Type of university (Public)	6.351	3.809-10.591	<0.001
Year of medical School foundation	1.035	1.020-1.050	<0.001
Location of the university (urban)	6.872	4.254-11.101	<0.001
Religious affiliation
No affiliation	1.000
Evangelical	0.976	0.477-1.998	0.947
Catholics	1.448	0.813-2.579	0.209
Spiritist	3.596	1.574-8.212	0.002
Other	1.063	0.532-2.125	0.862
Religious attendance	0.577	0.489-0.681	<0.001
Embryonic stem cell use ^b
Type of university (Public)	1.923	1.412-2.619	<0.001
Year of medical School foundation	1.033	1.023-1.044	<0.001
Location of the university (urban)	1.582	1.193-2.097	0.001
Intrinsic religiousness	0.944	0.891-1.000	0.048
Religious attendance	0.591	0.520-0.672	<0.001
Adult stem cell use ^c
Undergraduate year	0.859	0.771-0.957	0.006
Number of medical students in the university	0.996	0.993-0.999	0.004
Type of university (Public)	4.864	3.155-7.500	<0.001
Year of medical School foundation	1.033	1.019-1.046	<0.001
Location of the university (urban)	4.462	2.931-6.793	<0.001
Religious attendance	0.696	0.622-0.779	<0.001
Human cloning ^d
Gender (Female)	0.711	0.595-0.848	<0.001
Age	1.045	1.013-1.079	0.006
Undergraduate year	0.899	0.847-0.954	<0.001
Religious attendance	0.799	0.750-0.851	<0.001

^aHosmer-Lemeshow: 107.812, p = <0.001, Nagelkerke R square = 0.324.
^bHosmer-Lemeshow: 20.490, p = 0.009, Nagelkerke R square = 0.180.
^cHosmer-Lemeshow: 56.872, p = <0.001, Nagelkerke R square = 0.184.
^dHosmer-Lemeshow: 3.563, p = 894, Nagelkerke R square = 0.052.
Variables: gender, age, race, undergraduate year, Number of medical students in the university, type of university (public or private), Year of medical School foundation, income, location of the university (urban or rural), intrinsic religiousness, religiousness attendance, non-organizational religiousness, happiness, satisfaction with the course, believe in life after death, believe in soul, religious affiliation and desired medical specialty.

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