Table 1 Proportion of Residents Answering “Agree” by Demographic
Variable | Category | TOTAL | Withdraw Treatment | Participate in PHD | Prescribe Lethal Drug | Administer Lethal Injection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | (% total) | n | (% total) | n | (% total) | n | (% total) | |||
Age (yrs) | (mean) | 28.8 | 29.9 | – | 29.1 | – | 29.1 | – | 29.3 | – |
(SD) | 4.5 | 3.8 | – | 4.0 | – | 4.1 | – | 4.4 | – | |
Sex | Male | 72 | 34 | (55.7) | 28 | (45.9) | 24 | (40.7) | 17 | (27.9) |
Female | 175 | 76 | (51.0) | 59 | (39.3) | 41 | (27.3) | 34 | (22.7) | |
School | Quebec | 91 | 29 | (34.9)*** | 36 | (42.9) | 29 | (34.9) | 26 | (31.0) |
Ontario | 92 | 52 | (64.2) | 36 | (44.4) | 26 | (32.1) | 18 | (22.2) | |
Prairie | 53 | 29 | (63.0) | 15 | (32.6) | 10 | (22.2) | 7 | (15.2) | |
PGY | 1 | 139 | 61 | (49.6) | 52 | (41.9) | 42 | (33.9) | 35 | (28.2) |
2 | 106 | 49 | (57.6) | 33 | (38.8) | 23 | (27.7) | 16 | (18.8) | |
Religion | Not religious | 85 | 38 | (50.0) | 41 | (53.9) *** | 26 | (34.7) | 24 | (31.6) * |
Other | 39 | 22 | (68.8)* | 16 | (50.0) * | 13 | (41.9) | 9 | (28.1) | |
Christian | 120 | 48 | (48.5) | 29 | (29.0) | 25 | (25.0) | 17 | (17.0) | |
Practice | Strictly | 40 | 18 | (60.0) | 3 | (10.0) | 2 | (6.7) | 1 | (3.3) |
Not strictly | 66 | 33 | (61.1) | 17 | (30.9) * | 15 | (27.8) * | 12 | (21.8) | |
Not | 120 | 49 | (45.4) | 53 | (49.1) *** | 37 | (34.6) ** | 29 | (26.9) * | |
Ethnicity | Other | 65 | 36 | (65.5) | 19 | (34.5) | 17 | (30.9) | 12 | (21.8) |
Caucasian | 182 | 74 | (47.7)* | 68 | (43.6) | 48 | (31.2) | 39 | (25.0) | |
TOTAL | 247 | 115 | (52.0) | 91 | (40.9) | 68 | (30.9) | 54 | (24.3) | |