Table 2. Attitudes towards consanguinity by respondents' characteristics and familiarity with affected children of consanguineous parents (means and SD).

Attitudes towards consanguinity	Meana(SD)	P-value
Gender
Female	3.20 (1.14)	0.102b
Male	2.86 (1.14)
Age
<20 years	3.29 (1.16)	0.283b
≥20 years	3.08 (1.13)
Marital status
Single	3.07 (1.11)	0.426c
Living together/married	3.26 (1.18)
Divorced/widowed	3.04 (1.12)
Consanguineous relationship
Yes	3.98 (0.92)	<0.001b
No	2.91 (1.09)
Children
Yes	3.34 (1.10)	0.231b
No	3.10 (1.15)
Education
Low	3.14 (0.90)	0.759c
Intermediate	3.08 (1.22)
High	3.21 (1.10)
Parents' country of birth
Morocco	3.30 (1.15)	<0.001c
Turkey	2.58 (1.06)
Other	3.50 (0.78)
Migrant status
First generation	3.18 (1.23)	0.781c
Second generation	3.12 (1.13)
Other	3.30 (0.74)
Familiar with affected child in consanguineous relationship
Yes	2.78 (1.02)	0.002b
No	3.30 (1.16)

^aMeans based on a five-point scale, higher scores being more favourable.

^bMann–Whitney test.

^cKruskal–Wallis test.