Physician-Assisted Dying: Are Education and Religious Beliefs Related to Nursing Students' Attitudes?

Physician-Assisted Dying: Are Education and Religious Beliefs Related to Nursing Students' Attitudes?

A survey of 190 Israeli nursing students found that just over half were opposed to legalization of physician-assisted dying. Exposure to theory about euthanasia or clinical oncology experience had a small effect on these attitudes. Religious beliefs and degree of religiosity were significant determi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Nursing Education 2003-02, Vol.42 (2), p.91-96
Hauptverfasser: Margalith, Ilana, Musgrave, Catherine F, Goldschmidt, Lydia
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Age Factors
Assisted suicide
Attitude of Health Personnel - ethnology
Beliefs
College Students
Core curriculum
Death
Education, Nursing
Educational Attainment
Educational Status
Ethics
Euthanasia
Female
Foreign Countries
Hebrew language
Humans
Hypotheses
Israel
Male
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nursing education
Nursing Education Research
Nursing Research
Nursing Students
Patients
Questionnaires
Religion
Religious beliefs
Schools
Student Attitudes
Students, Nursing
Suicide
Suicide, Assisted - ethnology
Values
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Zusammenfassung:A survey of 190 Israeli nursing students found that just over half were opposed to legalization of physician-assisted dying. Exposure to theory about euthanasia or clinical oncology experience had a small effect on these attitudes. Religious beliefs and degree of religiosity were significant determinants of these attitudes. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)
ISSN:0022-3158
0148-4834
1938-2421
DOI:10.3928/0148-4834-20030201-10