Relationship between respondent characteristics and attitude towards MAID in general and toward MAID in specific study scenarios
| MAID in general | MAID-medical, treatment refusal* | MAID-medical, lack of access* | MAID-psychiatric, treatment refusal* | MAID-psychiatric, lack of access* | |
| Older age† | + | – | – | 0 | – |
| Higher income† | + | 0 | – | 0 | 0 |
| More education† | + | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Less religious attendance† | + | 0 | – | 0 | 0 |
| White (vs other) | + | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Have disability‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Have chronic condition‡ | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Close to someone with disability‡ | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| Have mental illness‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Close with mental illness‡ | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Experienced unavailability of resources‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Close with MAID requestor‡ | + | + | 0 | + | 0 |
This table summarises the results of 2×n (Cochran-Armitage, singly ordered) or n×n (Jonckheere-Terpstra, doubly ordered) tests for trend, except for age which was compared using analysis of variance in general linear models; the frequency tables and test results can be found in the online supplemental file B.
*MAID-medical treatment refusal scenario concerns a patient with cancer who refuses treatment; MAID-medical, lack of access scenario concerns a patient with multiple chemical sensitivities who lacks access to treatment; MAID-psychiatric treatment refusal concerns a patient with depression who refuses ketamine treatment; MAID-psychiatric lack of access concerns a patient with PTSD and depression who cannot access medications and therapy.
†Above, (+) indicates a positive association, (−) indicates a negative association and (0) indicates no association between higher age, income, education or less religious attendance with support for MAID in general or MAID in different scenarios.
‡(+) indicates a positive association, (−) indicates a negative association and (0) indicates no association between being white, having a disability, a chronic condition, a mental illness, being close to someone with a disability or mental illness, experiencing lack of access to resources or being close to a MAID requestor with support for MAID in general or MAID in different scenarios.
MAID, medical assistance in dying; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.