Table 6.

Results of univariable logistic regression for the presence of a personal last wish at the onset of specialist palliative care

	β	SE	OR (95% CI)	p
Age	-.007	.009	.993 (.976–1.011)	.458
Female gender	-.184	.225	.832 (.535–1.292)	.412
Married/life partnership	-.058	.225	.934 (.607–1.467)	.796
Have children	-.139	.253	.583 (.530–1.429)	.538
Living alone	-.083	.239	.920 (.576–1.470)	.727
Religious confession	.057	.232	1.059 (.672–1.669)	.805
School education
Low (≤ 9 years)	.711	.278	2.036 (1.181–3.510)	.010
High (12–13 years)	.555	.291	1.742 (.985–3.079)	.056
Non-malignant disease	-.253	.359	.777 (.384–1.570)	.482
Physical symptom count (0–21)	.182	.035	1.199 (1.120–1.284)	< .001
Advance directive – living will	-.308	.245	.735 (.454–1.189)	.210
Advance directive – healthcare proxy	.082	.233	1.085 (.688–1.713)	.725
Palliative care ward	.789	.255	2.201 (1.334–3.631)	.002
Distress level (DT, 0–10)	.012	.053	1.012 (.913–1.122)	.820
Anxiety symptom level (GAD-2, 0–6)	.153	.060	1.165 (1.037–1.310)	.010
Depressive symptom level (PHQ-2, 0–6)	.079	.058	1.082 (.966–1.211)	.172

Reference groups: dependent variable: not having a personal last wish; independent variables: female gender vs. male; married/life partnership vs. single/divorced/widowed; having a child vs. not; living alone vs. living in the same household or near the family; religious confession vs. not; low (secondary general school-leaving certificate or less) and high (university entrance qualification) vs. intermediate school-leaving certificate (10 years); non-malignant disease vs. malignant; living will vs. none; health proxy vs. none; palliative care ward vs. home-based specialist palliative care

Abbreviations: ß unstandardized regression coefficient, SE standard error, OR odds ratio for independent variables, CI 95% confidence interval, p probability of type I error

Significant results are marked in bold