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The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey
BACKGROUND: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, to describe the prevalence of advance directives on euthanasia, and to identify associated factors. METHOD: This study used...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26643482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0068-1 |
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author | De Vleminck, Aline Pardon, Koen Houttekier, Dirk Van den Block, Lieve Vander Stichele, Robert Deliens, Luc |
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description | BACKGROUND: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, to describe the prevalence of advance directives on euthanasia, and to identify associated factors. METHOD: This study used data from the cross-sectional Health Interview Study (HIS) 2008 that collected data from a representative sample (N = 9651) of the Belgian population. RESULTS: Of all respondents, 4.4 % had spoken to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, while 1.8 % had an advance directive on euthanasia. Factors positively associated with discussions regarding wishes for medical treatment at the end of life were being female, being older in age, having poorer health status and having more GP contacts. People older than 55 years and living in Flanders or Brussels were more likely than the youngest age categories to have an advance directive on euthanasia. CONCLUSION: Younger people, men, people living in the Walloon region of Belgium, people without a longstanding illness, chronic condition or disability and people with few GP contacts could represent a target group for education regarding advance care planning. Public information campaigns and education of physicians may help to enable the public and physicians to engage more in advance care planning. |
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spelling | pubmed-46712162015-12-08 The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey De Vleminck, Aline Pardon, Koen Houttekier, Dirk Van den Block, Lieve Vander Stichele, Robert Deliens, Luc BMC Palliat Care Research Article BACKGROUND: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, to describe the prevalence of advance directives on euthanasia, and to identify associated factors. METHOD: This study used data from the cross-sectional Health Interview Study (HIS) 2008 that collected data from a representative sample (N = 9651) of the Belgian population. RESULTS: Of all respondents, 4.4 % had spoken to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, while 1.8 % had an advance directive on euthanasia. Factors positively associated with discussions regarding wishes for medical treatment at the end of life were being female, being older in age, having poorer health status and having more GP contacts. People older than 55 years and living in Flanders or Brussels were more likely than the youngest age categories to have an advance directive on euthanasia. CONCLUSION: Younger people, men, people living in the Walloon region of Belgium, people without a longstanding illness, chronic condition or disability and people with few GP contacts could represent a target group for education regarding advance care planning. Public information campaigns and education of physicians may help to enable the public and physicians to engage more in advance care planning. BioMed Central 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4671216/ /pubmed/26643482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0068-1 Text en © De Vleminck et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article De Vleminck, Aline Pardon, Koen Houttekier, Dirk Van den Block, Lieve Vander Stichele, Robert Deliens, Luc The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title | The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title_full | The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title_fullStr | The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title_full_unstemmed | The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title_short | The prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
title_sort | prevalence in the general population of advance directives on euthanasia and discussion of end-of-life wishes: a nationwide survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26643482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0068-1 |
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