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Legalization of physician-assisted suicide in California: Will Californians support or oppose physician-assisted suicide?

机译：加利福尼亚医师协助自杀的合法化：加利福尼亚人会支持还是反对医师协助自杀？

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Physician-assisted suicide is a controversial topic for which both sides have valid and compelling arguments. In 1997, physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon, giving the right of an individual to end his or her life when over the age of 18, terminally ill and given less than six months to live. The legalization of physician-assisted suicide was recently considered in California and, according, to a recent Field Poll, 70% of Californians approve the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. In the present study, 184 people in the San Francisco Bay Area completed surveys requesting their opinion on the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in California. The purpose of this study was to examine if participants would support or oppose physician-assisted suicide when given a short vignette describing two individuals who may request it. The first vignette described a retired gentleman in his 70's recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and the second vignette described a younger woman, also recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with two young children. The relationship between participants' demographic information and their responses were examined. Across all participants, 68% supported the legalization of physician-assisted suicide, 19% were against physician-assisted suicide and 13% were "undecided." Thus a majority of the participants supported physician-assisted suicide regardless of which vignette they read. For the total sample Participants' responses were not related to demographic information. However, among a subgroup of the sample (n=50) with higher religious affiliation, only 46% supported physician-assisted suicide, 30% were opposed and 24% were undecided. Furthermore, among this group, there was a significant difference across vignettes, with more support for physician-assisted suicide if the patient was an older man than if she was a younger mother. Future research should expand beyond the San Francisco Bay Area, and further investigate the relationship of higher religious affiliation to views on physician-assisted suicide. Mental health professionals could play a critical role in working with patients requesting physician-assisted suicide, and could help consider ramifications for family members (especially those under age 18) of the person choosing physician-assisted suicide. However, it is necessary to develop appropriate training for mental health professionals who may choose to work with individuals requesting physician-assisted suicide.
机译：医师协助自杀是一个有争议的话题，双方都有有效而令人信服的论点。 1997年，医生协助的自杀在俄勒冈州合法化，赋予个人在18岁以上，身患绝症且生活时间少于六个月的生命中终止其生命的权利。加利福尼亚最近考虑了医师协助自杀的合法化，据最近的《民意调查》显示，有70％的加利福尼亚人赞成医师协助自杀的合法化。在本研究中，旧金山湾区的184人完成了调查，请他们就加利福尼亚州医生协助自杀的合法化提出意见。这项研究的目的是研究参与者在简短地描述两个可能提出要求的人的简短插图时，是否会支持或反对医生协助的自杀。第一个小插图描述了一位70岁退休的绅士，最近被诊断出患有胰腺癌，第二个小插图描述了一个年轻女子，最近也被诊断出患有胰腺癌，有两个小孩。研究参与者的人口统计信息和他们的反应之间的关系。在所有参与者中，有68％的人支持医师协助自杀的合法化，有19％的人反对医师协助的自杀，还有13％的人“不确定”。因此，无论他们读哪个小插图，大多数参与者都支持医生协助的自杀。对于总样本，参与者的回答与人口统计信息无关。但是，在具有较高宗教信仰的样本子集中（n = 50），只有46％的医生支持自杀，反对的有30％，不确定的有24％。此外，在这一组中，各个小插曲之间存在显着差异，如果患者年龄较大，则对医生协助自杀的支持要大于母亲年龄较小。未来的研究应扩展到旧金山湾地区以外，并进一步调查更高宗教信仰与医生协助自杀的观点之间的关系。精神卫生专业人员在与要求医师协助自杀的患者一起工作中可以发挥关键作用，并可以帮助考虑选择医师协助自杀的人的家庭成员（尤其是18岁以下）的后果。但是，有必要为可能选择与需要医生协助自杀的个人一起工作的精神卫生专业人员开展适当的培训。

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    Reed, Christina Chantel.;

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    Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay.;

  • 授予单位 Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay.;
  • 学科 Health Sciences Mental Health.;Psychology Clinical.;Law.
  • 学位 Psy.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 95 p.
  • 总页数 95
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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