Size, response rate, and characteristics of the sample
| Number and proportion (%) of staff | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | Spain | France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | Sweden | Hungary | Estonia | Lithuania | |
| Proportions are weighted to take the sampling design into account. | ||||||||||
| *Computed as number of responding staff over the number of staff who were invited to complete the questionnaire. | ||||||||||
| †Median (25th–75th centile). The score indicates the degree of staff agreement with the idea of an absolute value of human life: the lower the score, the higher the agreement with this “pro-life” position. | ||||||||||
| No of respondents (response rate*) | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 271 (95) | 206 (94) | 206 (90) | 226 (87) | 134 (88) | 89 (69) | 93 (91) | 120 (94) | 18 (100) | 28 (82) |
| Nurses | 527 (92) | 305 (89) | 425 (87) | 647 (88) | 483 (83) | 346 (70) | 367 (87) | 213 (90) | 39 (95) | 58 (92) |
| Female | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 123 (46) | 94 (46) | 94 (47) | 86 (33) | 76 (57) | 40 (45) | 24 (25) | 79 (66) | 10 (56) | 19 (68) |
| Nurses | 486 (94) | 283 (93) | 408 (96) | 633 (99) | 444 (92) | 338 (98) | 351 (96) | 210 (100) | 39 (100) | 55 (96) |
| Age less than 40 years | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 106 (39) | 113 (55) | 139 (69) | 171 (75) | 102 (77) | 69 (78) | 18 (19) | 74 (61) | 10 (56) | 26 (93) |
| Nurses | 394 (76) | 185 (61) | 317 (75) | 581 (91) | 371 (77) | 226 (66) | 215 (59) | 156 (73) | 38 (97) | 55 (96) |
| Having had children | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 184 (68) | 121 (59) | 116 (58) | 130 (56) | 59 (44) | 39 (44) | 81 (87) | 84 (71) | 16 (89) | 21 (75) |
| Nurses | 249 (49) | 170 (56) | 214 (51) | 203 (28) | 221 (46) | 184 (53) | 266 (73) | 107 (52) | 20 (51) | 23 (40) |
| Importance of religion (extremely/fairly important) | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 184 (69) | 104 (51) | 81 (40) | 111 (57) | 37 (28) | 38 (43) | 25 (27) | 50 (41) | 3 (18) | 9 (32) |
| Nurses | 402 (78) | 134 (44) | 121 (29) | 226 (44) | 159 (33) | 191 (56) | 127 (35) | 67 (33) | 20 (59) | 40 (70) |
| Attitude score† | ||||||||||
| Doctors | 5.6 (4.1–7.0) | 6.2 (4.8–7.1) | 6.9 (6.0–7.6) | 6.0 (5.2–7.0) | 7.6 (6.9–8.5) | 7.8 (6.8–8.5) | 7.2 (6.1–8.0) | 5.5 (4.5–6.3) | 5.5 (5.0–5.8) | 5.7 (4.3–6.6) |
| Nurses | 5.4 (3.4–6.7) | 6.8 (5.8–7.7) | 7.0 (6.0–7.7) | 6.8 (6.0–7.6) | 7.8 (7.0–8.6) | 7.0 (6.0–8.0) | 6.6 (5.5–7.6) | 6.3 (5.2–7.1) | 5.2 (4.4–6.4) | 5.3 (4.1–6.3) |