Ethical awareness and issues in gastrointestinal endoscopy practice: A survey study

Table 1 Current status of ethical awareness among gastrointestinal endoscopy practitioners

Ethical principles	Number of subjects	Awareness rate (%)
Principle of respect for autonomy	91	89.22
Principle of beneficence	83	81.37
Principle of justice	79	77.45
Principle of non-maleficence	85	83.33

Table 2 Awareness of ethical principles through different learning pathways, n (%)

Learning pathways	Aware	Unaware	χ2	P value
	Number of subjects	Number of subjects
Hospital ethics institutions	59 (71.95)	23 (28.05)	29.747	< 0.0001
Special lectures	56 (68.29)	26 (31.71)	29.889	< 0.0001
Academic conferences	46 (56.10)	36 (43.90)	2.191	0.139
Medical school	44 (53.66)	38 (46.34)	1.167	0.28
Internet/television media	40 (48.78)	42 (51.22)	0.165	0.684

Table 3 Results of binary logistic regression analysis of learning effectiveness of different learning pathways

Variable	B	SE	Wald χ2	P value	Exp (B)	95%CI
Hospital ethics institution	3.289	1.400	5.520	0.019	26.815	1.725-416.852
Special lectures	2.189	1.373	2.541	0.111	8.931	0.605-131.814
Academic conferences	2.595	1.482	3.065	0.080	13.395	0.733-244.688
Medical school	-2.725	1.691	2.597	0.107	0.066	0.002-1.802
Internet/television media	-2.781	1.770	2.470	0.116	0.062	0.002-1.989
Constant	-1.149	1.902	0.365	0.546	0.317

CI: Confidence interval.