Table 2.

Information provision and decision-making per GDP tertile

	All respondents	Lower GDP tertilea	Middle GDP tertilea	Higher GDP tertilea	P-valueb
Timing of information before KRT initiation, %					<0.001
No information received	25.2	34.1	21.1	16.6
<1 month	17.8	19.2	18.4	15.3
1–3 months	17.2	15.4	18.2	18.9
4–12 months	16.4	11.9	16.7	22.3
>12 months	23.4	19.4	25.6	27.0
No information received about, %
CHD	7.4	10.0	4.7	6.2	<0.001
HHD	42.1	51.7	48.4	26.5	<0.001
PD	24.5	34.7	21.8	16.0	<0.001
LTX	22.7	29.0	20.2	17.9	<0.001
DTX	19.8	28.7	12.6	16.6	<0.001
CCM	33.0	33.8	28.5	36.2	<0.001
Information source, %
Nephrologist	92.1	89.7	95.2	92.9	<0.001
Doctor other than nephrologist	19.5	21.4	19.7	16.5	<0.001
Nurse	38.1	27.2	32.3	58.8	<0.001
Other kidney patients	24.5	24.2	27.1	22.5	0.002
Brochure/booklet	26.7	18.7	24.2	40.4	<0.001
Website/Internet	21.2	16.7	23.8	25.1	<0.001
Kidney patients' federation	14.9	6.4	18.8	23.6	<0.001
Persons influencing decision making, %
Husband/wife or partner	39.9	29.5	39.3	55.2	<0.001
Other family members	30.2	30.0	30.4	30.3	0.940
Friends	5.3	4.7	5.4	6.1	0.074
Other kidney patients	10.2	8.4	13.2	10.0	<0.001
My doctor	81.3	82.0	78.5	82.7	0.002
My nurse	17.2	7.0	14.7	33.9	<0.001
Employer/supervisor at work	0.8	0.2	0.7	1.6	<0.001
Another person	1.4	1.2	1.5	1.7	0.389
Nobody	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.411

^aFor the categorization of countries per GDP category, see Supplementary data, Figure S2.

^bP-values calculated with Chi-square tests to compare GDP tertiles on categorical outcomes.

LTX, living donor kidney transplantation; DTX, deceased donor kidney transplantation; CCM, comprehensive conservative management.