Are Asians comfortable with discussing death in health valuation studies? A study in multi-ethnic Singapore

Table 2 Univariable Analyses of the Influence of Sociocultural Variables on Ease in Discussing Death

	Ease in discussing death^† (Median, IQR/Spearman's Correlation Coefficient)	p value
Ethnicity		0.82
Chinese	8.0 (7.0, 9.0)
Malays	8.0 (5.0, 10)
Indians	8.0 (6.0, 10)
Age (years)	-0.094	0.47
Gender		0.57
Male	7.5 (7.0, 10)
Female	8.0 (6.0, 10)
Education (years)	0.25	0.045
Chronic medical conditions		0.32
No	8.0 (7.0, 10)
Yes	8.0 (5.3, 10)
Working		0.69
No	8.0 (7.0, 9.5)
Yes	7.5 (5.8, 10)
Healthcare background		0.55
No	8.0 (7.0, 10)
Yes	8.0 (5.5, 9.0)
Religiosity^†	0.042	0.74

IQR – interquartile range. ^†Self-reported on a 0 to 10 Likert-type scale, where a higher score indicates greater ease in discussing death/higher religiosity.

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