Table 4 Percentage giving responses opposed to donation to statements in the Barbados survey and South London, odds ratios (adjusting for gender, age, education and employment status), 95% CI and p-value

Is important to me that I could give someone else a chance of life after my death. (% Disagree)

4.0

15.2

4.4

4.79

2.14 to 9.51

p < 0.001

1.31

0.64 to 2.68

p = 0.45

Donating your organs when you die is a good thing to do. (% Disagree)

6.5

24.0

3.9

5.18

2.93 to 9.1

p < 0.001

0.765

0.40 to 1.42

p = 0.38

I wouldn't mind who received my kidney after my death. (% Disagree)

11.8

24.7

9.1

.39

.24- to .64

p < 0.001

1.29

0.81 to 2.08

p = 0.25

Am not confident that medical teams would try as hard to save the life of a person who has agreed to donate organs ^b (% Agree)

43.4

20.3

6.2

.34

.23 to .51

p < 0.001

.10

0.06 to .15

P < 0.001

I worry that if I donate my organs for transplant they might be used without my consent for other purposes like medical research. (% Agree)

29.0

62.7

43.4

4.50

3.08 to 6.57

p < 0.001

2.56

1.86 to 3.51

P < 0.001

Concerned that an intact body with no parts removed is needed for the life hereafter ^c (% Agree)

7.1

39.3

16.0

7.90

4.62 to 13.5

p < 0.001

3.74

2.20- to 6.29

P < 0.001

Organ donation is unacceptable because of my religious beliefs ^d (% Agree)

12.1

18.9

5.0

1.98

1.21 to 3.26

p < 0.001

0.55

0.33 to 0.94

p = 0.02

Feel that agreeing when alive to donating kidneys as a gift after death is like tempting death ^e (% Agree)

8.5

35.2

19.3

6.35

3.77 to 10.69

p < 0.001

2.78

1.74 to 4.45

p < 0.001