Table 3.
Linear Multivariable Regression Analyses: Decedents' and Family Members' Characteristics and Family Members' Quality of General Communication Scores as Predictors of Family Members' Decision Regret Scores
| Multivariable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Covariate | B | SE | p |
| Decision regret | Decedent age | −0.02 | 0.03 | 0.457 |
| Decedent gender | −1.49 | 0.63 | 0.022 | |
| Decedent income | ||||
| Decedent education | ||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.11 | |||
| F | 4.02 | |||
| Decision regret | Quality of general communication | 5.68 | 1.08 | 0.203 |
| Family member age | ||||
| Family member gender | ||||
| Family member income | ||||
| Family member education | ||||
| Family member religious values | −0.24 | 0.24 | 0.335 | |
“The health care team didn't do this” was coded as a rating of 0. “I don't know” was coded as missing. The subscales: the General Communication Subscale (items 1–6) and the End-of-life Communication Subscale (items 7–13) had response options that ranged from 0 = “poor” to 10 = “absolutely perfect.” The middle of the scale with the value of 5 = “very good.”27