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Table 3 Attitude towards doctor assisted death among different socio-demographic subgroups in the survey sample (N = 494)

From: Assisted life termination and truth telling to terminally ill patients – a cross-sectional study of public opinions in Israel

Participants

characteristics

Support Doctor Assisted Death

(SDAD)

N (%)

Oppose Doctor Assisted Death

(ODAD)

N (%)

No position

N (%)

P value

Chi-Square

All respondents (494)

241 (48.8)

183 (35.0)

70 (14.2)

 

Gender

   

0.31

 Male (n = 243)

111 (45.7)

98 (40.3)

34 (14.0)

 

 Female (n = 251)

130 (51.8)

85 (33.9)

36 (14.3)

 

Age

   

<.0001

 18–34 (n = 186)

68 (36.6)

89 (47.8)

29 (15.6)

 

 35–44 (n = 100)

47 (47.0)

41 (41.0)

12 (12.0)

 

 45–54 (n = 73)

37 (50.7)

24 (32.9)

12 (16.4)

 

 55–64 (n = 60)

33 (55.0)

18 (30.0)

9 (15.0)

 

 65 + (n = 75)

56 (74.7)

11 (14.7)

8 (10.6)

 

Age

   

<.0001

 18–44 (n = 286)

115 (40.2)

130 (45.5)

41 (14.3)

 

 45–64 (n = 133)

70 (52.6)

42 (31.6)

21 (15.8)

 

 65 + (n = 75)

56 (74.7)

11 (14.7)

8 (10.6)

 

Education (years)

   

0.02

  < K12 (n = 53)

17 (32.1)

26 (49.1)

10 (18.8)

 

 K12 (n = 136)

68 (50.0)

54 (39.7)

14 (10.3)

 

  > K 12 nonacademic (vocational) (n = 108)

49 (45.4)

46 (42.6)

13 (12.0)

 

  > K12 academic (n = 196)

107 (54.6)

57 (29.1)

32 (16.3)

 

Income

   

<.001

 Bellow average (n = 191)

72 (37.7)

89 (46.6)

30 (15.7)

 

 Average (n = 110)

62 (56.4)

33 (30.0)

15 (13.6)

 

 Above average (n = 138)

82 (59.4)

40 (29.0)

16 (11.6)

 

Religiousness

   

<.0001

 Secular (n = 206)

143 (69.4)

38 (18.5)

25 (12.1)

 

 Tradition keeper (n = 149)

73 (49)

50 (33.6)

26 (17.4)

 

 Religious (n = 88)

23 (26.1)

51 (58.0)

14 (15.9)

 

 Ultra-orthodox (n = 49)

1 (2.0)

44 (89.8)

4 (8.2)

 

Ethnicity

   

<.0001

 Jewish (n = 400)

214 (53.5)

135 (33.8)

51 (12.8)

 

 Othera (n = 94)

27 (28.7)

48 (51.1)

19 (20.2)

 
  1. aMuslim, Christian, and Druze