Table 2.
The relationship between community residents’ awareness of hospice care and their attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment
| Project | Category | Life-sustaining treatment attitudes at the end of life | Total (n = 519) | x2 | P‧ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active treatment (n = 181) | Comfortable support treatment (n = 265) | No treatment needed (n = 73) | |||||
| Awareness of hospice care | Better understanding | 11 (25.58) | 29 (67.44) | 3 (6.98) | 43 (8.29) | 18.382 | 0.001** |
| Basic understanding | 61 (27.98) | 127 (58.26) | 30 (13.76) | 218 (42.00) | |||
| No understanding | 109 (42.24) | 109 (42.25) | 40 (15.50) | 258 (49.71) | |||
| Total | 181 (34.88) | 265 (51.05) | 73 (14.06) | 519 (100.00) | |||