Demographic Factors

The demographic factors considered include age, sex, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, country, language, hospital setting, and work setting. Work settings considered by the protocol include private, public, rural, and urban practice. Muslim women had lower CCI scores than Orthodox women across all quantiles. Lower parity was associated with higher CCI compared with parity of five or more. Women aged 15-24 had significantly lower CCI scores at the 10th, 75th, and 90th quantiles. Younger women had lower CCI scores than women aged 35-49. Demographic clinician factors include both clinician characteristics and the clinical environment in which clinicians practise. Awareness of mortality and cosmic scale created a need to interpret existence. Hospital type is treated as relevant because institutions may differ in case mix and culture. Women with high parity may miss care because of household burdens, childcare demands, and resource constraints. Religion is linked broadly to human smallness before eternity. Religion is framed as one way humans manage knowledge of their insignificance.