Table 4.

Strength of religious faith and the decision to terminate futile care

Strength of religious faith
	Low	Average	High
Who should decide about the withdrawal of futile care?
Health-care professionals	p = 0.5267
Patient	17.1%	19.1%	15.2%
Clinician	10.2%	4.6%	6.5%
Patient’s family	3.4%	6.9%	4.4%
Patient and clinician	69.3%	69.4%	73.9%
Non-health-care professionals	p = 0.2709
Patient	36.7%	26.1%	26.5%
Clinician	3.3%	10.9%	10.2%
Patient’s family	0.0%	2.2%	10.2%
Patient and clinician	60.0%	60.9%	53.1%
Patient’s right to terminate futile care against clinician's recommendation
Health-care professionals	p = 0.0070**
Yes	93.8%	77.7%	75.7%
No	2.1%	12.5%	13.6%
I don’t know	4.1%	9.8%	10.7%
Non-health-care professionals	p = 0.0001***
Yes	81.8%	51.9%	36.4%
No	3.0%	34.6%	54.5%
I don’t know	15.2%	13.5%	9.1%
Patient’s right to refuse life-saving medical procedures
Health-care professionals	p = 0.0026**
Yes	100.00%	93.3%	85.4%
No	0.00%	3.1%	7.8%
I don’t know	0.00%	3.6%	6.8%
Non-health-care professionals	p = 0.0000***
Yes	93.9%	59.6%	22 (40.0%)
No	3.0%	21.2%	26 (47.3%)
I don’t know	3.0%	19.2%	7 (12.7%)

Chi-square independence test was used

^*–p < 0.05 (statistically significant)

^**–p < 0.01 (highly statistically significant)

^***–p < 0.001 (very highly statistically significant)