Table 4.
Presence of a personal last wish and themes of personal last wishes at follow-up (cross-sectional analysis)
|
Entire sample (N = 130) |
Home-based SPC (N = 100) |
Inpatient SPC (N = 130) |
p | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Presence of a personal last wish (yes) | 77 | 40.8 | 56 | 56.0 | 21 | 70.0 | .171 |
| If yes, in the category of… a | N = 77 | N = 56 | N = 21 | ||||
| Travel | 30 | 39.0 | 21 | 37.5 | 9 | 42.9 | .184 |
| Activities | 12 | 15.6 | 10 | 17.9 | 2 | 9.5 | .304b |
| Regaining health | 18 | 23.4 | 15 | 26.8 | 3 | 14.3 | .200b |
| Quality of life | 15 | 19.5 | 13 | 23.2 | 4 | 19.0 | .477b |
| Being with Family and Friends | 15 | 19.5 | 8 | 14.3 | 7 | 33.3 | .063 |
| Dying comfortably | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 1.8 | 1 | 4.8 | –-c |
| Turn back time | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | –-c |
| Taking care of final matters | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4.8 | –-c |
Abbreviations p probability of type I error (chi-square tests / Fisher’s exact test), SPC specialist palliative care
a Multiple answers possible; percentage of patients, who mentioned at least one personal last wish referring to this category; b Fisher’s exact test; c Significance not tested due to lacking variation in sample data