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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurocrit Care. 2021 Feb 23;35(2):468–479. doi: 10.1007/s12028-021-01200-9

Table 3.

Binary logistic regression for predictors of Life Sustaining Therapy (LST) selection among the severe disability survey participants

Odds Ratio 95% Confidence Interval
Age groups
 60+
 45-59 1.16 0.60 – 2.22
 30-44 2.07 0.70 – 6.11
Race
 Other
 White, non-Hispanic 0.67 0.39 – 1.15
Education
 Bachelor’s degree or higher
 Some college 1.13 0.57 – 2.25
 High school 1.23 0.58 – 2.20
 Less than high school 2.88 1.23 – 6.76
Household size 1.10 0.91 – 1.33
Household internet access
 No 1.75 0.94 – 3.25
Years in US 1.00 0.96 – 1.03
Religion, OR
 Not affiliated with religion
 Evangelical Protestant 2.00 0.73 – 5.48
 Catholic 1.91 0.72 – 5.05
 Other Christian 1.84 0.76 – 4.50
 Other faith 1.14 0.39 – 3.33
Decisional group
 Concern re: patient age
 Concern re: family agreement 1.57 0.67 – 3.68
 Concern re: prognostic accuracy 7.64 3.61 – 16.15
 Concern re: cost of care 4.07 1.80 – 9.18

LST = life-sustaining therapy. OR = odds ratio. CI = confidence interval.

All percentages are weighted percentages.

Demographic variables in Table 2 that had p≤0.10 were included in this analysis.