Survey on hospice care attitude of family members of advanced cancer patients at different ages

Table 1 Comparison of awareness of hospice care among family members of three groups of patients, n (%)

Groups	n	Know	Understood some	Not heard of
Youth group	65	20 (30.77)	27 (41.54)	18 (27.69)
Middle-aged group1	59	26 (44.07)	12 (20.34)	21 (35.59)
Elderly group1	51	18 (35.29)	10 (19.61)	23 (45.10)
χ2		10.747
P value		0.030a

^aP < 0.05.

¹Compared to youth group.

Table 2 Comparison of attitudes of family members of three groups of patients toward hospice care, n (%)

Group	n	Accept and adapt	Ambiguous attitude	Not accepting or rejecting
Youth group	65	38 (58.46)	16 (24.62)	11 (16.92)
Middle-aged group1	59	20 (33.90)	24 (40.68)	15 (25.42)
Elderly group1	51	16 (31.37)	13 (25.49)	22 (43.14)
χ2	--	16.911
P value	--	0.002a

^aP < 0.05.

¹Compared to youth group.

Table 3 Comparison of whether three groups of patients would choose hospice care, n (%)

Group	n	Choose	No choose
Youth group	65	41 (63.08)	24 (36.92)
Middle-aged group1	59	25 (42.37)	34 (57.63)
Elderly group1	51	20 (39.22)	31 (50.78)
χ2	--	8.143
P value	--	0.017a

^aP < 0.05.

¹Compared to youth group.

Table 4 Specific reasons, n (%)

Reasons	Number	Constituent ratio
Choose	89
Relieve Pain		33 (37.08)
Provide medical information		21 (23.60)
Providing Funeral Services		8 (8.99)
Avoiding unnecessary treatment		25 (28.09)
No choose	86
Distrust		28 (32.56)
Not delaying patient lifespan		17 (19.77)
Insufficient Popularization		16 (18.60)
Ethics related		23 (26.74)