Table 3.
Attitudes of ICU patient's relatives toward informed consent according to their demographic factors.
| Demographic factors | Do you agree to provide informed consent for participation in a clinical study on behalf of your patient in ICU? | I agree because I think that the study will be beneficial for my patient | I agree because I want to support the scientific research | |||||||||
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| Agree | Neutral | Disagree | P value | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | P value | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | P value | |
| Gender | 0.514 | 0.503 | 0.206 | |||||||||
| Male | 72 (70.6%) | 6 (5.9%) | 24 (23.5%) | 69 (67.6%) | 6 (5.9%) | 27 (26.5%) | 17 (16.7%) | 21 (20.6%) | 64 (62.7%) | |||
| Female | 61 (74.4%) | 2 (2.4%) | 19 (23.2%) | 59 (72.0%) | 2 (2.4%) | 21 (25.6%) | 7 (8.5%) | 15 (18.3%) | 60 (73.2%) | |||
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| Age | 0.491 | 0.521 | 0.069 | |||||||||
| 18–30 | 20 (83.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (16.7%) | 20 (83.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (16.7%) | 2 (8.3%) | 4 (16.7%) | 18 (75.0%) | |||
| 31–40 | 39 (73.6%) | 4 (7.5%) | 10 (18.9%) | 36 (67.9%) | 4 (7.5%) | 13 (24.5%) | 2 (3.8%) | 16 (30.2%) | 35 (66.0%) | |||
| 41–50 | 36 (65.5%) | 2 (3.6%) | 17 (30.9%) | 35 (63.6%) | 2 (3.6%) | 18 (32.5%) | 9 (16.4%) | 8 (14.5%) | 38 (69.1%) | |||
| >50 | 38 (73.1%) | 2 (3.8%) | 12 (23.1%) | 37 (71.2%) | 2 (3.8%) | 13 (25.0%) | 11 (21.2%) | 8 (21.2%) | 33 (63.5%) | |||
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| Education status | 0.986 | 0.991 | 0.228 | |||||||||
| Primary | 15 (71.4%) | 1 (4.8%) | 5 (23.8%) | 14 (66.7%) | 1 (4.8%) | 6 (28.6%) | 2 (9.5%) | 4 (19.0%) | 15 (71.4%) | |||
| Secondary | 31 (77.5%) | 1 (2.5%) | 8 (20.0%) | 29 (72.5%) | 1 (2.5%) | 10 (25.0%) | 5 (12.5%) | 9 (22.5%) | 26 (65.0%) | |||
| Diploma | 26 (68.4%) | 2 (5.3%) | 10 (26.1%) | 25 (65.8%) | 2 (5.3%) | 11 (28.9%) | 10 (26.3%) | 6 (15.8%) | 22 (57.9%) | |||
| University | 61 (71.8%) | 4 (4.7%) | 20 (23.5%) | 60 (70.6%) | 4 (4.7%) | 21 (24.7%) | 7 (8.2%) | 17 (20.0%) | 61 (71.8%) | |||
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| Relatedness | 0.14 | 0.035 | 0.006 | |||||||||
| Husband/wife | 17 (60.7%) | 4 (14.3%) | 7 (25.0%) | 17 (60.7%) | 4 (14.3%) | 7 (25.0%) | 3 (10.7%) | 10 (35.7%) | 15 (53.6%) | |||
| Father/mother | 56 (84.8%) | 2 (3.0%) | 8 (12.1%) | 53 (80.3%) | 2 (3.0%) | 11 (16.7%) | 4 (6.1%) | 13 (19.7%) | 49 (74.2%) | |||
| Son/daughter | 36 (67.9%) | 1 (1.9%) | 16 (30.2%) | 35 (66.0%) | 1 (1.9%) | 17 (32.1%) | 14 (26.4%) | 8 (15.1%) | 31 (58.5%) | |||
| Sister/brother | 24 (64.9%) | 1 (2.7%) | 12 (32.4%) | 23 (62.2%) | 1 (2.7%) | 13 (35.1%) | 3 (8.1%) | 5 (13.5%) | 29 (78.4%) | |||