Chinese and Belgian pediatricians’ perspectives toward pediatric palliative care: an online survey

BMC Palliative Care

Table 4 Multiple Linear Regression Analysis of Mainland Chinese Pediatricians’ Socio-characteristics and Perspectives Toward PPC^a

Variable	Variable Category	Estimate	p-value^d	95%CI
Unit Support^b
Constant	NA	2.737	< 0.001	(2.644, 2.830)
Received PPC education	Yes	0.850	< 0.001	(0.561, 1.140)
	No	Ref	NA	NA
Experience providing PPC	Yes	0.358	0.014	(0.072, 0.644)
	No	Ref	NA	NA
PPC Importance^b
Constant	NA	3.280	< 0.001	(3.022, 3.538)
Age	Per unit increase	0.013	< 0.001	(0.006, 0.020)
Gender	Female	0.134	0.022	(0.019, 0.249)
	Male	Ref	NA	NA
Experience caring for dying children	Yes	0.124	0.032	(0.011, 0.238)
	No	Ref	NA	NA
Work Experience^b
Constant	NA	3.082	< 0.001	(2.869, 3.296)
Work department^c	General pediatric Ward, and private practice space	-0.410	< 0.001	(-0.651, -0.168)
	Pediatric subspecialty ward	Ref	NA	NA

Abbreviations: PPC = pediatric palliative care; NA = not available; Estimate = unstandardized coefficient B estimate; Ref = reference category; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval
^aThe following independent variables were included in our multiple linear regression model for all subscales except for the Personal Obstacles subscale: gender, age, religious beliefs, professional specialty, institutional setting, work department, main work, employment status, years of being pediatrician, received PPC education, experience caring for dying children, and experience providing PPC. For Personal Obstacles, no independent variables were included
^bThe following dependent variables were included in our multiple linear regression model for the mean scores of the following subscales: Unit Support (Model: R = 0.397, R² = 0.157, p < 0.001); PPC Importance (Model: R = 0.270, R² = 0.073, p < 0.001); and Work Experience (Model: R = 0.183, R² = 0.033, p < 0.001)
^cThree independent variables were excluded from analysis: received PPC education, experience caring for dying children, and experience providing PPC. They were excluded because they were largely correlated with the items in the Work Experience subscale
^dp-value: <0.05 was considered statistically significant

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