Factors Influencing Physician Attitudes

How it works

Risks & contraindications

Comparisons

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• Male physicians, those in operative and diagnostic specialties, and medical students showed significantly greater support for euthanasia and PAS legalisation than female physicians, those in conservative specialties, and other cohorts. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Both the youngest (ages 25–34) and oldest (over 64) physician cohorts were more accepting of assisted dying than middle-aged cohorts. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Prior exposure to a patient or family member requesting euthanasia or PAS was associated with significantly more permissive attitudes and substantially higher willingness to participate. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• The measured demographic and background factors explain only a small fraction of attitudinal variance (Nagelkerke R² = 0.046–0.057), reflecting the multidimensional nature of physician attitudes toward assisted dying. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• In Canada, emotional burden and fear of psychological harm were specifically cited as reasons physicians decline to personally participate in assisted dying. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study