Table 2. Patient characteristics according to their nationality (N = 326) a.
| Nationality | p-valueb | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian(N = 231) | Dutch(N = 95) | |||||
| N | % | N | % | |||
| Age (before or from 41 years)c | ||||||
| 27-40 | 208 | 76.2 | 65 | 23.8 | 0.000 | 273 |
| 41-48 | 23 | 43.4 | 30 | 56.6 | 53 | |
| Children | ||||||
| No children | 17 | 7.4 | 14 | 14.7 | 0.064 | 31 |
| Children, but none were conceived through IVF | 29 | 12.7 | 7 | 7.4 | 36 | |
| Children, and at least one child was conceived through IVF | 183 | 79.9 | 74 | 77.9 | 257 | |
| Timing of the last treatment cycle | ||||||
| Less than two years ago | 51 | 22.3 | 30 | 31.6 | 0.023 | 81 |
| Between two years and three years ago | 137 | 59.8 | 41 | 43.2 | 178 | |
| More than three years ago | 41 | 17.9 | 24 | 25.3 | 65 | |
| Assessment of treatment burden of the last treatment cycle | ||||||
| Bearable | 83 | 36.4 | 49 | 52.1 | 0.011 | 132 |
| Physically burdensome | 12 | 5.3 | 5 | 5.3 | 17 | |
| Emotionally burdensome | 51 | 22.4 | 16 | 17.0 | 67 | |
| Physically and emotionally burdensome | 82 | 36.0 | 24 | 25.5 | 106 | |
| Level of education | ||||||
| No upper secondary education | 13 | 5.7 | 9 | 9.6 | 0.000 | 22 |
| Upper secondary education | 67 | 29.3 | 42 | 44.7 | 109 | |
| Tertiary education, short | 93 | 40.6 | 10 | 10.6 | 103 | |
| Tertiary education, long | 56 | 24.5 | 33 | 35.1 | 89 | |
| Life stance and religion | ||||||
| Christian overall | 145 | 63.0 | 38 | 40.0 | 0.000 | 183 |
| Catholic | 87 | 37.8 | 21 | 22.1 | 108 | |
| Protestant | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 7.4 | 7 | |
| Christian | 58 | 25.2 | 10 | 10.5 | 68 | |
| Muslim | 5 | 2.2 | 5 | 5.3 | 10 | |
| No denomination | 58 | 25.2 | 43 | 45.3 | 101 | |
| Other | 1 | 0.4 | 2 | 2.1 | 3 | |
Row percentages.
aData missing for one patient for ‘Life stance and religion’, for two patients for ‘Timing of the last treatment cycle’ and ‘Children’, for three patients for ‘level of education’, and for four patients for ‘Assessment of treatment of treatment burden’.
bFishers’ Exact test: significance of difference of distribution between Belgian and Dutch patients. Kruskall-Wallis test for ‘Level of education’.
cThe recommended age limit to treat women in the Netherlands.