Table 1.
Willingness to become a stool donor, on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree that they are willing) to 10 (strongly agree that they are willing) by participant characteristics.
| High willingness to be a stool donor |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants (total n = 778) | No (n = 330) | Yes (n = 448) | P value | |
| Country | 0.41 | |||
| Canada | 311 (40.0%) | 123 (37.3%) | 188 (42.0%) | |
| United Kingdom | 164 (21.1%) | 72 (21.8%) | 92 (20.5%) | |
| USA | 303 (38.9%) | 135 (40.9%) | 168 (37.5%) | |
| Female gender | 565 (72.6%) | 249 (75.5%) | 316 (70.5%) | 0.13 |
| Age (years) | 0.14 | |||
| <21 | 33 (4.2%) | 21 (6.4%) | 12 (2.7%) | |
| 21–30 | 377 (48.5%) | 160 (48.5%) | 217 (48.4%) | |
| 31–40 | 149 (19.2%) | 62 (18.8%) | 87 (19.4%) | |
| 41–50 | 85 (10.9%) | 35 (10.6%) | 50 (11.2%) | |
| >50 | 134 (17.2%) | 52 (15.8%) | 82 (18.3%) | |
| Occupation | 0.83 | |||
| Health-care professional | 320 (41.1%) | 138 (41.8%) | 182 (40.6%) | |
| Student | 240 (30.8%) | 96 (29.1%) | 144 (32.1%) | |
| University faculty or staff | 76 (9.8%) | 34 (10.3%) | 42 (9.4%) | |
| Other | 142 (18.3%) | 62 (18.8%) | 80 (17.9%) | |
| Blood donors | 423 (54.4%) | 158 (47.9%) | 265 (59.2%) | 0.002 |
| Number of blood donations | 0.017 | |||
| 0 donations | 355 (45.6%) | 172 (52.1%) | 183 (40.8%) | |
| <10 donations | 288 (37.0%) | 110 (33.3%) | 178 (39.7%) | |
| 11–20 donations | 87 (11.2%) | 32 (9.7%) | 55 (12.3%) | |
| >20 donations | 48 (6.2%) | 16 (4.8%) | 32 (7.1%) | |
| Considered being an organ donor | 703 (90.4%) | 292 (88.5%) | 411 (91.7%) | 0.13 |