本科生对因精神疾病而死亡的医疗援助的态度
Stephen Claxton-Oldfield1, Emma Mackley1
1Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
|January 20, 2024
概括
大多数学生都不知道即将对心理疾病的医疗死亡援助 (MAiD) 法律的变化. 大多数人认为,对于那些在等待护理的人来说,治疗应该优先于MAiD.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 医学伦理 医学伦理
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
背景情况:
- 加拿大最近的立法变化将于2024年3月生效,允许医疗死亡辅助 (MAiD) 对唯一潜在疾病是精神疾病的个人.
- 本科生对MAiD治疗精神疾病的认识和态度在很大程度上还没有得到检查.
- 了解学生的观点对于在这个敏感问题上告知公共话语和政策制定至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估本科生对即将发生的关于精神疾病的MAiD法律变更的认识.
- 测量学生对向接受和等待治疗的精神疾病患者提供MAiD的态度.
- 探索学生对MAiD心理疾病可访问性的立场背后的推理.
主要方法:
- 对71名本科生进行了一项调查.
- 参与者被问及他们对MAiD精神疾病法律修正案的了解.
- 对患有精神疾病 (正在接受或正在等待治疗) 个体的MAiD资格的态度使用利克特比例表协议进行评估.
- 收集了开放式的答案,以了解学生意见背后的理由.
主要成果:
- 超过一半 (52%) 的学生不知道,从2024年3月开始,MAiD将用于精神疾病作为唯一的潜在疾病.
- 只有28%的学生同意向接受精神疾病治疗的人提供MAiD,而42%的人不同意.
- 显著较小的比例 (14%) 同意等待精神疾病治疗的个人应该获得MAiD,而71%的人不同意.
- 大多数 (68%) 评论MAiD等待治疗的学生认为应该先接受治疗.
结论:
- 本科生对围绕精神疾病的MAiD不断变化的法律环境的认识很低.
- 学生的态度通常倾向于优先考虑心理健康治疗而不是MAiD,特别是那些等待护理的人.
- 调查结果表明,需要加强公众教育和讨论MAiD对心理健康状况政策的复杂性.
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