Power asymmetry and embarrassment in shared decision-making: predicting participation preference and decisional conflict

Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of urological and non-clinical sample and results of sample comparisons

Characteristics	Urological sample n = 107		Non-clinical sample n = 250		Sample comparison
	n	%	n	%	χ²	df (1, N =)	p	Cramer’s V/ OR
Gender
Female	21	19.6	199	79.6
Male	86	80.4	48	19.2
Divers^a	0	0	3	1.2	115.28	354	< 0.001	0.58/ 6.98
Nationality
German	100	93.5	236	94.4
Other	7	6.5	14	5.6	0.01	357	0.920	-
Highest educational level
University degree	39	36.5	95	38.0
No university degree	67	62.6	155	62.0	0.01	356	0.924	-
Living arrangement
Living alone	19	17.8	54	21.6
Living with others	79	73.8	196	78.4	0.10	348	0.757	-
Hospital admission
Fixed appointment	100	93.5	-	-
Emergency	2	1.9	-	-
Diagnosis
Oncological	45	42.1	-	-
Suspected oncological	20	18.7
Non-oncological	37	34.3	-	-
	M	SD	M	SD	t	df	p	Cohen’s d
Age	61.2	12.1	26.6	9.5	-26.3	164.8	< 0.001	3.34

Note. n may vary for cells due to pairwise exclusion and missing values. Welch’s two-sample t-test was conducted to analyze sample differences in age. Pearson’s χ²-tests were conducted to examine sample differences in gender, nationality, educational level, and living arrangement

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