Effect of parental socialization on student nurses' attitudes toward euthanasia

Thrush, John C.; Stewart, Cyrus S.; Paulus, George S.

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“…Relatively few studies have examined the relationship between knowledge and attitudes about euthanasia. Thrush, Stewart, and Paulus (1985) examined the influence of parental socialization on attitudes about active and passive euthanasia among a group of student nurses. King andHaslip (2001-2002) analyzed the effect of depth of exposure to death and dying in the media on general attitudes about death and discovered that extensive media exposure may lead to greater fear of death.…”

Section: Amount Of Exposure To Issues Involved In End-of-life Decision-making Including Personal Experiencesmentioning

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First-Year College Students' Attitudes about End-of-Life Decision-Making

Weiss

Lupkin

2010

Omega (Westport)

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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.

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Section: Amount Of Exposure To Issues Involved In End-of-life Decision-making Including Personal Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

First-Year College Students' Attitudes about End-of-Life Decision-Making

Weiss

Lupkin

2010

Omega (Westport)

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“…10 Social scientists, cognizant of these methodological limitations, introduced the scenario approach to provide respondents with a more complex rating task, one that more closely approximates the information available in real-life situations and leaves less room for interpretative variation. This approach has been used widely in assessing public perceptions of the seriousness of a variety of offenses (see Herzog, 2003;Rossi et al, 1974;Sellin and Wolfgang, 1964;Wolfgang et al, 1985), including criminal homicide (Mitchell, 1998), and euthanasia (e.g., Thrush et al, 1985). However, one of the main weaknesses of this approach is that it does not allow for systematic examination of the effect of multiple factors surrounding the scenario that may influence public attitudes toward it (Applegate et al, 1993;Jacoby and Cullen, 1999;Roberts, 1992;Rossi and Berk, 1997).…”

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Euthanasia as a Serious Homicide: An Empirical Study of (Normative) Consensus in Israel

Herzog

2005

Crime Law Soc Change

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The present study tests the applicability of the consensus versus the conflict model of criminal law in the case of homicide, and euthanasia, in particular. Although most criminal statutes consider euthanasia to be a serious homicide, many studies have revealed increasing public support for it. A survey of a national sample of Israeli respondents, based on a factorial design methodology, was conducted to determine the extent to which the criminal law reflects general or particular public attitudes toward euthanasia. The findings revealed that although social groups varied in their views on the seriousness of euthanasia, the public at large perceived it as significantly less serious than any other type of homicide. These findings are compatible with calls for reassessment of the criminal law with regard to euthanasia.

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“…While studies have examined health care practitioners' attitudes towards euthanasia or the medical nontreatment of adult patients (Anderson & Caddell, 1993;Brown, Thompson, Bulger, &Laws, 1971;Carey & Posavec, 1978-1979Davis et al, 1993;Hansen & Mc Aleer, 1983Kulse, & Singer, 1993;Noyes, Jochimsen, & Travis, 1977;Shelley, Zahorchak, & Gambrill, 1987;Thrush, Stewart & Paulus, 1985;Waxman, Astrom, Norberg, & Winblad, 1988;Winget, Kapp, & Yeaworth, 1977;Yeaworth, Kapp, & Winget, 1974), few have evaluated their attitudes toward neonatal euthanasia and the medical nontreatment of newborns. Examining the impact of the neonate's medical characteristic on treatment decisions, Crane ( 1975) reported that physicians would more aggressively treat physically handicapped infants than mentally handicapped infants.…”

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Neonatal Euthanasia: Attributions of Students and Nurses

Sugarman

Montvilo

Matarese

1996

Journal of Social Issues

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An attributional analysis of neonatal euthanasia was undertaken in two studies to compare the responsibility attributions of nursing and non-nursing students (Study 1) and nurses (Study 2) toward a physician for a critically ill neonate's death. In both studies, vignettes about a newborn's death differed with respect to the physician's treatment of the critically ill newborn. In the student study, the physician was attributed the least responsibility for the newborn's death when cardiopulmonary resuscitation was attempted but failed, followed by the physician's issuance of either a "Do Not Resuscitate" order or an order to turn off the infant's respirator. Greatest responsibility was attributed to the physician when he ordered the infant's nutritional and hydration support to be terminated. In addition, the student's major (nursing vs. non-nursing) and the nursing student's educational cohort impacted the level of physician responsibility attributed. In contrast, the nurses' study found that the termination of nutritional and hydrational support was viewed as different from the physician's other three actions.

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Effect of parental socialization on student nurses' attitudes toward euthanasia

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

First-Year College Students' Attitudes about End-of-Life Decision-Making

First-Year College Students' Attitudes about End-of-Life Decision-Making

Euthanasia as a Serious Homicide: An Empirical Study of (Normative) Consensus in Israel

Neonatal Euthanasia: Attributions of Students and Nurses

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