Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death

BMC Palliative Care

Table 3 Death talk by gender

	Male	Female	RR (95% CI)	Fisher exact
	N = 114	N = 81		P-value
First interview:
Death talk initiated by client within 30 minutes	30%	80%	0.37 (0.27-0.50)	<0.001
Death talk initiated by client within 30 minutes	(34/114)	(65/81)		<0.001
Death talk after chaplain’s evocation*	59%	91%	0.64 (0.54-0.76)	<0.001
Death talk after chaplain’s evocation*	(67/114)	(74/81)		<0.001
Second interview: #
Participating in second interview	36%	29%	1.27 (0.49-4.59)	1.000
Participating in second interview	(17/47)	(2/7)		1.000
Chaplain’s evocation leads to death talk*	29%	0%	NR**	1.000
Chaplain’s evocation leads to death talk*	(5/17)	(0/2)		1.000
No death talk after two interviews	37%	9%	4.26 (2.10-8.98)	<0.001
No death talk after two interviews	(42/114)	(7/81)		<0.001

*Either as the result of direct reflections during the interview or in response to the open ended question at the end of the interview.
^#Of the 47 men and 7 women not engaging in death talk at first interview, 17 men and 2 women booked additional interviews.
^**Not able to calculate significant levels due to few observations.

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