Preferences for Advance Directives in Korea

Table 4

Preferences for end-of-life treatment by sociodemographic characteristics (N = 336).

Characteristics	Categories	P1		P2		P3		P4		P5
		%*	x^2	%	x^2	%	x^2	%	x^2	%	x^2
Age	≤40	60.2	0.122 (𝑃=.941)	12.5	2.390 (𝑃=.303)	21.9	6.038 (𝑃=.050)	7.0	0.263 (𝑃=.958)	10.2	1.803 (𝑃=.407)
	41-40	58.5		9.1		13.3		7.7		6.3
	≥51	60.7		5.4		9.1		5.4		10.7
Gender	Male	62.4	0.946 (𝑃=.331)	9.4	0.018 (𝑃=.892)	19.5	2.883 (𝑃=.090)	5.4	1.018 (𝑃=.313)	10.7	0.922 (𝑃=.337)
	Female	57.1		9.8		12.6		8.2		7.7
Education	≤high school	45.2	14.296 (𝑃=.000)	9.6	0.087 (𝑃=.768)	12.3	2.072 (𝑃=.150)	7.8	0.220 (𝑃=.639)	5.2	3.122 (𝑃=.077)
	>college	66.7		10.6		18.4		6.5		11.1
Self-reported health status	Good	59.2	2.322 (𝑃=.313)	8.7	0.451 (𝑃=.798)	21.2	2.839 (𝑃=.242)	7.7	0.202 (𝑃=.956)	7.7	0.384 (𝑃=.846)
	Neutral	56.7		10.7		13.5		6.7		9.6
	Bad	68.6		11.8		16.0		5.9		9.8
Socioeconomic status	Fairly good	67.8	3.839 (𝑃=.147)	5.7	2.645 (𝑃=.267)	14.9	0.163 (𝑃=.922)	4.6	1.076 (𝑃=.577)	9.3	0.666 (𝑃=.717)
	Neutral	57.5		11.4		16.6		7.4		8.0
	Fairly bad	53.5		12.7		17.1		8.5		11.3
Religion	None	58.6	1.065 (𝑃=.925)	6.3	4.803 (𝑃=.274)	15.2	3.646 (𝑃=.427)	7.1	1.915 (𝑃=.731)	9.0	0.704 (𝑃=.935)
	Buddhism	61.1		16.7		17.0		11.1		11.1
	Catholicism	66.7		12.1		9.1		6.1		9.1
	Christianity	57.6		11.2		17.6		5.6		8.0
	Other	60.0		0		40.0		0		0
Past experiences of separation by death	Yes	61.1	1.084 (𝑃=.321)	10.9	0.413 (𝑃=.521)	16.4	0.009 (𝑃=.924)	6.3	0.524 (𝑃=.469)	9.7	0.403 (𝑃=.526)
	No	54.8		8.5		16.0		8.5		7.4

P1: Preference item 1, P2: Preference item 2, P3: Preference item 3, P4: Preference item 4, and P5: Preference item 5.
*Each percent means how many participants chose yes for that item.