Euthanasia Education for Health Professionals in Turkey: students change                 their opinions

Özkara, Erdem; Civaner, Murat; Oğlak, Sema; Mayda, Atilla Senih

doi:10.1191/0969733004ne.696oa

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“…This suggests that the students needed more information about the issue, which is consistent with the results of relevant studies on nurses and health workers in Turkey (Kumas et al, 2007;Ozkara et al, 2004a;Tepehan et al, 2009;Turla et al, 2007). In one study, health workers' attitudes towards euthanasia changed to a great extent due to education programs (Ozkara et al, 2004a). This shows that euthanasia should be covered sufficiently in health education and dealt with at congresses and symposiums.…”

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Nursing Students' Approaches Toward Euthanasia

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confidence: 72%

Nursing Students' Approaches Toward Euthanasia

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“…Having in mind earlier studies on students’ opinion regarding this issue, it is easy to notice that students of medicine were mostly the research target group while law student were out of research focus. 8–19…”

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Euthanasia in Serbia: Attitudes of Students of Law and Medicine

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Kolaković-Bojović

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Background Voluntary active euthanasia represents one of the key topics in the contemporary world medicine, law, religious, ethical and moral issues. Serbia considers legalization of this procedure. Between the others, it is important to examine the student’s attitudes regarding this issue. Methods Data were obtained from the faculties of law and medicine, from the universities of Kragujevac and Niš, Serbia. Data were collected during the second half of 2017. The research included 214 students. Due to the nature, subject and hypothesis of the research, the authors used descriptive method and the method of the theoretical content analysis. Results Generally, 54% of the students are in favor of legalization of the voluntary active euthanasia. 62, 4% would take part in the referendum on the legalization euthanasia. Conclusion The results obtained in the survey on euthanasia on a sample of law and medical students in Niš and Kragujevac indicate that choice of the faculty (law or medicine) influences the structure (share) of responses to particular questions to some extent. However, this influence does not provide ground for conclusion that students’ opinion on legalization and application of euthanasia depends on fact they study law or medicine.

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“…There are attempts to draft euthanasia laws in many other countries. Euthanasia may become legal even for newborns in Holland (Özkara, 2001;¤nceolu, 1999;Smith, 2005;Özkara, Civaner, Olak, & Mayda, 2004;.…”

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Health Professionals' Attitude toward Euthanasia: A Cross-Sectional Study from Turkey

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There is an ongoing debate on the definition of euthanasia and attempts to change laws about euthanasia and its practice in many countries. It is the medical doctors and the other health professionals who will elucidate the issue. Therefore, we performed this study to reveal attitude of Turkish health professionals toward euthanasia. This is an observational and cross-sectional study and data were collected with a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 545 health professionals in Samsun, a city in the Black Sea Region in Turkey. Data were analyzed with SPSS package programs. Of all health professionals included in the study, 43.5% were medical doctors and 45.5% auxiliary health professionals. Of all participants, 33.6% did not object to euthanasia and 7.9% were asked to perform euthanasia. Eighty point seven percent of the participants noted that euthanasia could be abused even if a euthanasia law were passed. It can be concluded that the health professionals should have a chance to discuss euthanasia and that their attitude toward and their expectations and worries about euthanasia should be taken into account when a euthanasia law is drafted.

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Euthanasia Education for Health Professionals in Turkey: students change their opinions

Cited by 17 publications

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Nursing Students' Approaches Toward Euthanasia

Nursing Students' Approaches Toward Euthanasia

Euthanasia in Serbia: Attitudes of Students of Law and Medicine

Health Professionals' Attitude toward Euthanasia: A Cross-Sectional Study from Turkey

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