Preparing for the end-of-life: public attitudes towards advance directives and assisted suicide in Switzerland

BMC Palliative Care

Table 2 Associations between attitudes toward assisted suicide, advance directives and covariates, adults aged 58 +, 2019/2020, n = 1,523

	Support assisted suicide	Consider asking for assisted suicide	Member of right-to-die organization
Sex (male)
female	0.00	− 0.04	0.02
	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.01)
Age group (58–64 years)
65–74 years	0.01	− 0.04	0.03
65–74 years	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.02)
75 + years	− 0.08^**	− 0.16^***	0.00
75 + years	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.02)
Partnership status (has a partner)
no partner	− 0.05^*	− 0.08^*	− 0.00
no partner	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.02)
Language (German)
French	0.02	0.01	0.10^***
French	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.03)
Italian	− 0.20^**	− 0.13	0.07
Italian	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)
Education (primary)
secondary	0.06^*	0.01	0.00
secondary	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.02)
tertiary	0.09^*	0.04	0.04
tertiary	(0.04)	(0.04)	(0.03)
Make ends meet (easily)
fairly easily	0.01	− 0.02	− 0.02
fairly easily	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)
with difficulty	− 0.03	− 0.01	− 0.02
with difficulty	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.02)
Living area (urban)
Rural	0.01	− 0.02	0.01
Rural	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)
Self-rated health (bad health)
good health	0.02	− 0.02	− 0.01
good health	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.02)
very good/excellent health	0.07^*	0.01	− 0.01
very good/excellent health	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.02)
Completed AD (No)
Yes	0.07^**	0.15^***	0.20^***
Yes	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)
Observations	1523	1523	1523

The table shows average marginal effects and standard errors in parentheses. Statistical significance: * p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. The three columns present probit regressions models regressing each attitude toward assisted suicide on advance directives completion and the covariates. The covariates include sex, age, education levels, partnership status, subjective financial situation, linguistic region, living area and self-rated health

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