Table 6.
Motives against completion of AD (multiple answers possible)
| Participant did not yet complete an AD because… | Total (N=1665)* |
Outpatients of a university clinic (n1=1285) |
Outpatients of private practices (n2=380) |
| She/he currently does not want to deal with this issue | 588 (35) | 468 (36) | 120 (32) |
| She/he is too young | 321 (19) | 246 (19) | 75 (19) |
| Her/his attitude could change during the progression of a disease | 279 (17) | 222 (17) | 57 (17) |
| Medical treatment options could improve | 226 (14) | 186 (15) | 40 (11) |
| She/he delegates the decision to a specialist in case of emergency | 215 (13) | 172 (13) | 43 (11) |
| She/he feels insecure with legal regulations | 202 (12) | 160 (12) | 42 (11) |
| She/he fears giving the wrong instructions | 176 (11) | 144 (11) | 32 (8) |
| She/he cannot appraise the listed medical treatments | 136 (8) | 113 (9) | 23 (6) |
*N on this variable differs from the total due to missing values.
For all variables, the numbers of participants (percentages in brackets) are given.
AD, advance directive.