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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: “No thanks, I don’t want to see snakes again”: a qualitative study of pain management versus preservation of cognition in palliative care patients

Characteristic

N

31

Gender—% (N)

 Female

65 (20)

 Male

35 (11)

Age—M (SD)

69 (12)a

Age range

33–99

Marital status—% (N)

 Single

19 (6)

 Married

39 (12)

 Divorced

29 (9)

 Widowed

13 (4)

Highest level of education achieved—% (N)

 Some grade school

6 (2)

 Some high school

3 (1)

 High school graduate

13 (4)

 Some postsecondary

3 (1)

 Postsecondary certificate or diploma

20 (6)

 Bachelor’s degree

26 (8)

 Above bachelor’s degree

26 (8)

 Other

3 (1)

Religious/spiritual affiliation—% (N)

 Atheism

6 (2)

 Buddhism

6 (2)

 Christian 

42 (13)

 Hinduism

3 (1)

 Judaism

10 (3)

 Spiritual

3 (1)

 No religious or spiritual affiliation

17 (5)

 Unsure

3 (1)

  1. aOne participant did not report their age