Table 3.
Presence of a personal last wish and themes of personal last wishes at onset of specialist palliative care (cross-sectional analysis)
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Entire sample (N = 361) |
Home-based SPC (N = 238) |
Inpatient SPC (N = 123) |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | p | |
| Presence of a personal wish (yes) | 243 | 67.3 | 147 | 61.8 | 96 | 78.0 | .002 |
| If yes, in the category of… a | N = 243 | N = 147 | N = 96 | ||||
| Travel | 75 | 30.9 | 49 | 33.3 | 26 | 27.1 | .303 |
| Activities | 43 | 17.7 | 28 | 19.0 | 15 | 15.7 | .494 |
| Regaining health | 40 | 16.5 | 20 | 13.6 | 20 | 20.8 | .137 |
| Quality of life | 37 | 15.2 | 22 | 14.3 | 15 | 15.6 | .889 |
| Being with family and friends | 35 | 14.4 | 21 | 14.3 | 14 | 14.6 | .948 |
| Dying comfortably | 14 | 5.8 | 8 | 5.4 | 6 | 6.3 | .792 |
| Turn back time | 6 | 2.5 | 4 | 2.7 | 2 | 2.1 | 1.000b |
| Taking care of final matters | 4 | 1.6 | 3 | 2.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.000b |
Abbreviations: p probability of type I error (chi-square test / Fisher’s exact test), SPC specialist palliative care
Significant results are marked in bold
a Multiple answers possible; percentage of patients who mentioned at least one personal last wish referring to this category; b Fisher’s exact test