Assessing comfort level of organ donation competencies among pediatric intensivists in Saudi Arabia: a national survey

Table 3 Participants’ characteristics and comfort level with general organ donation competencies

	Variable	OR (95%CI)	VL/L/Ave	H/VH	P
Health Sector	Ministry of Health	0.395 (0.086 to 1.822)			0.234
	Ministry of National Guards - Health Affairs	0.413 (0.091 to 1.878)			0.252
	Ministry of Defense and Aviation - Armed Forces Hospitals	0.095 (0.019 to 0.484)			0.005
	King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre	0.284 (0.034 to 2.351)			0.243
	Ministry of Higher Education	1			.
Region	West	0.457 (0.122 to 1.713)			0.245
	South	0.1 (0.012 to 0.868)			0.037
	East	1.705 (0.447 to 6.501)			0.434
	Central	1 (. to.)			.
Frequency of involvement in donation after brain death	6 or more times per year	31.762 (2.102 to 479.92)			0.013
	2–5 times per year	60.775 (5.834 to 633.13)			0.001
	Once per year	12.86 (1.173 to 141.037)			0.037
	Once every few years	34.993 (3.06 to 400.164)			0.004
	Never	1			.
Center with a DBD program^*	Yes		12 (22.2%)	42 (77.8%)	0.204
Center with a DBD program^*	No		8 (36.4%)	14 (63.6%)	0.204
Transplant center^*	Yes		10 (33.3%)	30 (66.7%)	0.262
Transplant center^*	No		10 (21.7%)	46 (78.3%)	0.262

OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, VL Very low, L Low, Ave Average, H High, VH Very high
^*Asterisks represent those tests that did not fit the proportional odds assumption; therefore, very low, low, and average results were combined and compared with high and very high using Fisher exact test.

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