Physicians’ Characteristics Associated with Their Attitude to Family Presence during Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Table 3

Physicians’ view about potential immediate desirable effects of FP during CPR.

Assumed effect due to family presence; (desirable effects)	Physician response				value
	Strongly agree; (%)	Agree; (%)	Disagree; (%)	Strongly disagree; (%)
Help educate family about patient’s condition	2 (0.3%)	200 (34.2%)	382 (65.4%)	0	<0.001
Reduce family anxiety and fear	27 (4.6%)	48 (8.2%)	284 (48.6%)	225 (38.5%)	<0.001
Remove family doubts about care	40 (6.8%)	63 (10.8%)	426 (72.9%)	55 (9.4%)	<0.001
Improve family support to the staff	0	60 (10.3%)	299 (51.2%)	225 (38.5%)	<0.001
Improve family participation in patient care	0	43 (7.4%)	432 (74.0%)	109 (18.7%)	<0.001
Increase staff professionalism	58 (9.9%)	71 (12.2%)	254 (43.5%)	201 (34.4%)	<0.001

CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation. values derived from Pearson chi-square using “equiprobability model”.