The Attitudes of Socially Marginalized Men toward Physician-Assisted Suicide

Bibliographic Data

ID13629340
AuthorsLouisa A Parks (The California School of Professional Psychology and Alliant International University, San Francisco, corresponding author), Diane C Zelman (0000-0003-3061-5228, The California School of Professional Psychology and Alliant International University, San Francisco), Richard L Wanlass (University of California Davis Medical Center)
Year2010
Volume62
Issue2
Pages111-125
Publication date2010-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.62.2.b
PMID21375117
OpenAlexW2042986757
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

Bioethics and public policy literature suggests that socially marginalized populations may be at increased risk for overuse of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) were it to become more accepted. Yet the attitudes of socially marginalized populations toward PAS have not been widely studied. The present study surveyed a sample of men in a substance abuse recovery program. Participants completed a PAS attitude questionnaire and a religiosity measure. Support for PAS was fairly evenly split, with 52.2% indicating general opposition to PAS and 46.9% indicating general support. Greater religiosity was associated with more negative attitudes toward PAS. Higher educational level was associated with more acceptance. Overall attitudes toward PAS were considerably more negative than those of Dr. George Domino's (2003) general population sample

Environmental health · Opposition (politics · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Religiosity · Substance abuse · Clinical Psychology · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology

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