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Table 4 Important future agenda and their predictors

From: Public appraisal of government efforts and participation intent in medico-ethical policymaking in Japan: a large scale national survey concerning brain death and organ transplant

Agenda

Yes/No: numbers (%)

Predictors of respondents who selected the items: selected independent variables (odds ratio + sd, p-value, 95% CI)

Model peudo-R2 (p-value)

More disclosure

Yes: 695 (69.6)

No: 304 (30.4)

Education (1.178 + 0.060, 0.001, 1.065 - 1.302)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.629 + 0.112, 0.000, 1.424 - 1.865)

FirstAttentionPeriod (0.873 + 0.049, 0.016, 0.782 - 0.975)

0.104 (0.000)

More citizen opinion

Yes: 423 (42.3)

No: 576 (57.7)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.267 + 0.061, 0.000, 1.153 - 1.393)

0.021 (0.000)

More patients' opinion

Yes: 696 (69.7)

No: 303 (30.3)

Age (0.853 + 0.048, 0.005, 0.764 - 0.952)

Sex (1.593 + 0.257, 0.004, 1.161 - 2.186)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.443 + 0.088, 0.000, 1.280 - 1.627)

0.064 (0.000)

More experts' opinion

Yes: 565 (56.6)

No: 434 (43.4)

Age (1.122 + 0.056, 0.020, 1.018 - 1.236)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.392 + 0.073, 0.000, 1.255 - 1.543)

0.038 (0.000)

More gov't opinion

Yes: 9 (0.9)

No: 990 (99.1)

Age (2.337 + 0.836, 0.018, 1.160 - 4.712)

0.098 (0.006)

More time

Yes: 211 (21.1)

No: 788 (78.9)

Age (1.214 + 0.077, 0.002, 1.071 - 1.375)

Health condition (1.686 + 0.247, 0.000, 1.265 - 2.246)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.255 + 0.073, 0.000, 1.119 - 1.407)

0.043 (0.000)

More Speedy process

Yes: 205 (20.5)

No: 794 (79.5)

Age (0.880 + 0.052, 0.030, 0.784 - 0.988)

OpinionFormationPeriod (0.875 + 0.046, 0.011, 0.789 - 0.969)

KnowGovtEfforts (1.243 + 0.071, 0.000, 1.112 - 1.391)

0.034 (0.000)

Status quo

Yes: 12 (1.2)

No: 987 (98.8)

KnowGovtEfforts (0.182 + 0.093, 0.001, 0.067 - 0.494)

0.199 (0.000)

  1. Possible explanatory (independent) variables for stepwise logistic regression analysis: KnowGovtEfforts, Age, Sex, Education, Occupation, Hospitalization, CurrentHealthCondition, FirstAttentionPeriod, OpinionFormationPeriod, KnowDonorCard, Appraisal score, and Participation intent.