Assessing attitudes towards medical assisted dying in Canadian family medicine residents: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 2 Logistic Regression Model to Estimate Probability of Residents “Agreeing” with End-of-Life Activities

Variable	Category	Withdraw Treatment (n = 188)		Participate in PHD (n = 189)		Prescribe Lethal Drug (n = 187)		Administer Lethal Injection (n = 189)
Variable	Category	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Age (in years)		1.0	0.93–1.07	1.05	0.97–1.13	1.02	0.95–1.10	1.05	0.97–1.14
PGY	1
PGY	2	0.81	0.41–1.59	0.72	0.35–1.45	0.74	0.34–1.57	0.67	0.29–1.50
Sex	Male
Sex	Female	0.99	0.49–1.97	0.57	0.27–1.19	0.38*	0.18–0.81	0.57	0.26–1.28
School	Quebec
	Ontario	3.80***	1.84–8.10	1.15	0.54–2.47	0.80	0.36–1.77	0.54	0.23–1.24
	Prairie	3.57**	1.49–8.88	0.73	0.27–1.89	0.45	0.14–1.26	0.38	0.11–1.13
Religion	Not Religious
	Other	1.13	0.36–3.65	3.84*	1.20–12.96	3.57*	1.09–12.11	1.49	0.42–5.15
	Christian	0.58	0.25–1.33	1.06	0.47–2.39	1.42	0.60–3.40	0.66	0.26–1.65
Practice	Strictly
	Not strictly	1.24	0.44–3.41	5.17*	1.24–35.63	4.80	1.13–33.44	6.45	1.10–123.38
	Not	0.68	0.24–1.85	17.38***	4.16–122.97	10.55**	2.5–74.40	8.54*	1.49–162.75
Ethnicity	Other
Ethnicity	Caucasian	0.55	0.26–1.16	1.19	0.54–2.67	0.75	0.33–1.70	0.86	0.37–2.10

Increased OR refers to more agreement. PHD - Physician Hastened Death. PGY – Post Graduate Year. OR – Odds ratio. 95% CI – 95% Confidence Intervals. Statistical significance calculated as described in methods with *** p value < 0.001, ** p value < 0.01, * p value < 0.05.

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