First-Year College Students' Attitudes about End-of-Life Decision-Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | GREGORY L WEISS (Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, corresponding author), Lea N Lupkin (Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-163 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.60.2.c |
| PMID | 20222234 |
| OpenAlex | W1996255894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
This study analyzes attitudes about treatment of the terminally ill among a group of first-year undergraduate students--a cohort that was in high school when intense publicity and extensive political and judicial involvement in the Terri Schiavo case occurred. Data for the study were collected by structured personal interviews with 201 randomly selected, first-year students in the first half of fall semester, 2005. Students clearly make distinctions in the propriety of active euthanasia, passive euthanasia, and physician-assisted death. Presented with a situation of a terminally ill patient in considerable pain, 65.1% of the students supported or strongly supported withdrawal of life-sustaining technology (passive euthanasia), 34.3% supported the physician providing the means of death to the patient (physician-assisted death), and 28.3% supported the physician actually administering a lethal injection (active euthanasia). A review of the literature of correlates of euthanasia attitudes in a variety of samples produced five potential types of influences: 1) general philosophical and religious beliefs; 2) fears about one's own death and dying process; 3) amount of information about and exposure to the issue of euthanasia; 4) characteristics of the community in which one lives; and 5) certain personal background characteristics. These categorical types produced 19 specific variables that were potentially related to euthanasia attitudes. The strongest predictor of attitudes varied among the three types of euthanasia, but political party affiliation had the most overall influence. Students self-identifying as Democrats were more likely than those self-identifying as Republicans to support euthanasia
Assisted suicide · Family medicine · Palliative care · Physician assisted suicide · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Publicity · Terminally ill · Ethics in medical practice · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |