Table 2.
Participants' answers to the five questions regarding truth telling, ACP, healthcare autonomy, and end-of-life care.
| Number | Sample questions | Yes N (%) |
No N (%) |
Refuse to answer N (%) |
Total N (%) |
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| 1 | “Do you want to hear the real news regarding your own condition from the physician?” | 728 (80.9) | 92 (10.2) | 80 (8.9) | 900 (100) |
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| 2 | “Would you prefer to make your own healthcare decisions?” | 472 (52.4) | 312 (34.7) | 116 (12.9) | 900 (100) |
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| 3 | “Have you ever heard of an ACP?” | 138 (15.3) | 705 (78.3) | 57 (6.4) | 900 (100) |
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| 4 | “Do you want to document in an ACP so that your own values and preferences will be respected in case you become seriously ill?” | 355 (39.4) | 377 (41.9) | 168 (18.7) | 900 (100) |
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| 5 | “Are you willing to endure specific life-prolonging interventions (such as chronic ventilator and feeding tube) to avoid death when faced with irreversible conditions?” | 79 (8.9) | 503 (55.8) | 318 (35.3) | 900 (100) |