Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study population
From: Thai medical students’ attitudes regarding what constitutes a “good death”: a multi-center study
Characteristics | N = 1029 |
|---|---|
Medical school, n(%) | |
- Siriraj hospital | 575 (55.9) |
- Srinagarind hospital | 454 (44.1) |
Age (years), median (IQR1,3) | 21 (20,22) |
Gendera, n(%) | |
- Female | 497 (48.4) |
- Male | 529 (51.6) |
Religiona (%) | |
- Buddhism | 973 (94.8) |
- Christianity | 27 (2.6) |
- Islam | 2 (0.2) |
- Others | 16 (1.6) |
- None | 8 (0.8) |
Year of medical student (%) | |
- First | 139 (13.5) |
- Second | 232 (22.6) |
- Third | 130 (12.6) |
- Fourth | 258 (25.1) |
- Fifth | 199 (19.3) |
- Sixth | 71 (6.9) |
Family size (person)a; n (%) | |
- Less than 3 | 155 (15.1) |
- Three or more | 871 (84.9) |
Experience living with an older adulta, n(%) | 501 (48.8) |
History of hospital admissionb, n (%) | 454 (44.3) |
In good healthc, n (%) | 685 (66.9) |
Satisfaction in lifec, n (%) | 846 (82.5) |
Prior experience of watching someone dying c, n (%) | 756 (73.6) |
Prior experience of caring for someone at the end of their lifec, n (%) | 446 (43.4) |
Prior experience counselling a patient/family member regarding end-of-life carec, n (%) | 159 (15.5) |
Self-rated as being knowledgeable with regard to palliative and end-of-life carec, n (%) | 75 (7.3) |
- First | 2 (1.4) |
- Second | 16 (6.9) |
- Third | 8 (6.2) |
- Fourth | 22 (8.6) |
- Fifth | 19 (9.6) |
- Sixth | 8 (11.3) |