ArticleJournal of medical ethics2003
When is physician assisted suicide or euthanasia acceptable?
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The association between social connectedness and euthanasia and assisted suicide and related constructs: systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Euthanasia in Africa: A scoping review of empirical evidence.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Canadian Undergraduates' Perspectives on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): A Quantitative Study.Journal of palliative care · 2022Article
- Determinants of Public Attitudes towards Euthanasia in Adults and Physician-Assisted Death in Neonates in Austria: A National Survey.PloS one · 2015Article
- The role of nurses in physician-assisted deaths in Belgium.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2010Article
- A role for judges in assisted dying.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2009Article
- What people close to death say about euthanasia and assisted suicide: a qualitative study.Journal of medical ethics · 2006Article
- [Euthanasia in patients with cancer and the continuous-care providers].Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2005Review
- The acceptability of ending a patient's life.Journal of medical ethics · 2005Article
- Standardized "malhotra-wig vignettes" for research in India : a review with full text.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2004Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo discover what factors affect lay people's judgments of the acceptability of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia and how these factors interact.
designParticipants rated the acceptability of either physician assisted suicide or euthanasia for 72 patient vignettes with a five factor design--that is, all combinations of patient's age (three levels); curability of illness (two levels); degree of suffering (two levels); patient's mental status (two levels), and extent of patient's requests for the procedure (three levels).
participantsConvenience sample of 66 young adults, 62 middle aged adults, and 66 older adults living in western France. MAIN MEASUREMENTS: In accordance with the functional theory of cognition of N H Anderson, main effects, and interactions among patient factors and participants' characteristics were investigated by means of both graphs and ANOVA.
resultsPatient requests were the most potent determinant of acceptability. Euthanasia was generally less acceptable than physician assisted suicide, but this difference disappeared when requests were repetitive. As their own age increased, participants placed more weight on patient age as a criterion of acceptability.
conclusionsPeople's judgments concur with legislation to require a repetition of patients' requests for a life ending act. Younger people, who frequently are decision makers for elderly relatives, place less emphasis on patient's age itself than do older people.
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