ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2021
Understanding the Reasons Behind Healthcare Providers' Conscientious Objection to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia.
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- Attitudes and Arguments in the Voluntary Assisted Dying Debate in Australia: What Are They and How Have They Evolved Over Time?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Development, reliability, and validity of the nurses' conscientious objection attitude scale (COAS-N).BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- The representation of Australians living with dementia in voluntary assisted dying research: A scoping review.Australasian journal on ageing · 2024Article
- Conscientious objection - a cross-sectional, vignette-based, mixed methods exploration of Australian pharmacists' perspectives.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2024Article
- Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement.BMC medical ethics · 2023Article
- Institutional Objection to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia: An Analysis of Publicly Available Policies.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2023Article
- Conscientious Objection and Other Motivations for Refusal to Treat in Hastened Death: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Ethical Diversity and Practical Uncertainty: A Qualitative Interview Study of Clinicians' Experiences in the Implementation Period Prior to Voluntary Assisted Dying Becoming Available in their Hospital in Victoria, Australia.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2023Article
- Implementing voluntary assisted dying laws in healthcare: Exploring beliefs to identify implementation hurdles.Research in nursing & health · 2023Article
- Access to voluntary assisted dying in Australia requires fair remuneration for medical practitioners.The Medical journal of Australia · 2023Article
- Junior doctors and conscientious objection to voluntary assisted dying: ethical complexity in practice.Journal of medical ethics · 2022Article
- "I haven't had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to": describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Goodbye Hippocrates?Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021Article
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Abstract
During the debates about the legalization of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, the presence of anti-VAD health professionals in the medical community and reported high rates of conscientious objection (CO) to VAD suggested access may be limited. Most empirical research on CO has been conducted in the sexual and reproductive health context. However, given the fundamental differences in the nature of such procedures and the legislation governing it, these findings may not be directly transferable to VAD. Accordingly, we sought to understand how CO operates in the context of VAD. Prior to the implementation of the VAD legislation in June 2019, we conducted semi-structured interviews with seventeen health professionals with a self-declared CO to VAD, to explore what motivated their CO. Participants identified multiple motivations, which can be broadly categorized as: concerns for oneself; concerns for patients; concerns about the current Victorian legislation; and concerns for the medical profession. Participants' moral commitments included personal, professional, and political commitments. In some cases, one's CO was specific to Victoria's current legislation rather than VAD more broadly. Our findings suggest CO motivations extend beyond those traditionally cited and suggest a need to better understand and manage CO in the healthcare context.
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