ArticleIsrael journal of health policy research2020
Assisted life termination and truth telling to terminally ill patients - a cross-sectional study of public opinions in Israel.
Article in Israel journal of health policy research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- End of life care preferences in the Arab population in Israel- bridging the gap between unfounded assumptions and autonomous wishes.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- The association of medical, social, and normative factors with the implementation of end-of-life care practices.Israel journal of health policy research · 2024Article
- Older adults' attitudes toward using Euthanasia at the end-of life: cancer vs. Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Medical decisions concerning the end of life for cancer patients in three Colombian hospitals - a survey study.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- The end-of-life care in the emergency department setting with respect to the Middle East countries and comparison with the Western countries.Turkish journal of emergency medicineReview
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Abstract
backgroundEnd-of-life decisions are highly complex socio-normative and ethical phenomena. The goal of this study was to provide an assessment of public opinions in Israel concerning aspects of end-of-life decisions.
methodsAn online cross sectional study was performed in February 2020. The primary tool including items pertaining to death assistance and truth telling to patients. A sample of 515 participants representative of the adult Israeli population was obtained.
resultsThe majority of participants (71%) supports telling the entire truth to patients even in harsh conditions. Support for truth telling decreases with affiliation to religion, with as little as 40% support among ultra-orthodox. People with vocational education are the least supportive of truth telling. Concerning doctor assisted death, almost half (49%) of the sample were supportive. Opposition is positively associated with religiosity, with 90% of ultra-orthodox and 58% of religious participants opposing doctor-assisted death, compared to only 18% among seculars. Non-Jews were 3.35 times (95%CI: 1.90, 5.91) more likely to oppose doctor assisted death than Jews (p < .0001). An Interrelationship analysis crossing between attitudes revealed that the largest group (39%) was comprised of participants who support both ("autonomists").
conclusionsIsraelis are overwhelmingly supportive of truth telling to patients. In contrast, Israeli public opinions on doctor assisted death are divided. For both attitudes, religiousness plays a crucial role as a catalyst for conservatism and opposition to change. Almost a half of the public is also supportive of an autonomist approach that would allow patients to decide on ending their own lives.
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