Changes in public attitudes towards confidential adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Lithuania after the introduction of new legislation: findings from the cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2005 and 2012

Table 2 Respondents who believed^a that adolescents would find it important that the physician would protect their confidentiality in a consultation on sexual and reproductive health issues, by survey year and socio-demographic characteristics

	2005 (N = 964)^b	2012^c (N = 852)^b	p-value¹
	%	%	p-value¹
Total:	61.9	73.0	<0.001
Gender:
Male	58.6	70.4	<0.001
Female	65.0	75.1	0.001
p-value²	0.042	0.123
Age:
16–34	71.4	77.9	0.070
35–54	60.9	72.7	0.001
55–74	52.7	67.6	<0.001
p-value	<0.001	0.029
Education:
Basic or lower	56.7	68.7	0.024
General (secondary)	64.6	74.5	0.012
Further education	65.6	72.6	0.095
University	57.6	74.3	<0.001
p-value	0.241	0.743
Marital status:
Married	62.6	72.0	0.002
Single	70.4	77.8	0.097
Divorced	47.6	72.6	0.001
Widowed	50.0	69.0	0.016
Unmarried cohabiting	62.9	72.3	0.361
p-value	0.001	0.552
Employment status:
Employed	63.5	75.5	<0.001
Unemployed	60.0	70.2	0.001
p-value	0.284	0.082
Income (per month and family person)
Up to 500 litas³	62.5	74.4	0.011
501 to 1,000 litas	59.0	68.9	0.010
More than 1,000 litas	65.5	76.7	0.050
p-value	0.477	0.112
Nationality:
Lithuanian	62.3	72.6	<0.001
Other nationality	60.5	77.2	0.014
p-value	0.710	0.378
Population of community of residence:
Up to 2,000	64.3	68.7	0.147
2,000–180,000	63.5	73.2	0.007
More than 180,000	57.7	77.2	<0.001
p-value	0.179	0.072

^aThese respondents indicated a belief that it is ‘very important’ or ‘important’ for adolescents to obtain confidentiality when addressing physician on sexual and reproductive health issues. Other response options were ‘neither important nor not important’, ‘not important’ and ‘not important at all’
^btotal number of respondents who provided required responses
^cadjusted for gender, age and marital status in accordance with the survey in 2005
¹comparing 2005 and 2012 within the same category (z test)
²comparing categories within the same year (Chi-squared test)
³1 litas = €0.29
p-values in bold indicate a statistically significant difference

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