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Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine how often patients who choose voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) are accompanied by Swiss family physicians, how physicians classify this process, and physicians’ attitudes and professional stance toward VSED. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional stu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32787706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520936069 |
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author | Stängle, Sabrina Schnepp, Wilfried Büche, Daniel Häuptle, Christian Fringer, André |
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description | OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine how often patients who choose voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) are accompanied by Swiss family physicians, how physicians classify this process, and physicians’ attitudes and professional stance toward VSED. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study between August 2017 and July 2018 among 751 practicing family physicians in Switzerland (response rate 74%; 70.7% men; average age 58 (±9) years). We used a standardized evidence-based questionnaire for the survey. RESULTS: VSED is well-known among family physicians (81.9%), and more than one-third (42.8%) had accompanied at least one patient during VSED. In 2017, 1.1% of all deaths that occurred in Swiss nursing homes or in a private home were owing to VSED. This phenomenon was classified as a natural dying process (59.3%), passive euthanasia (32.0%), or suicide (5.3%). CONCLUSIONS: Although about one in three Swiss family physicians have accompanied a person during VSED, family physicians lack sufficient in-depth knowledge to address patients and their relatives in an appropriate manner during the process. Further training and development of practice recommendations are needed to achieve more standardized accompaniment of VSED. International Registered Report Identifier: DERR1-10.2196/10358 |
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spelling | pubmed-74270362020-08-25 Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study Stängle, Sabrina Schnepp, Wilfried Büche, Daniel Häuptle, Christian Fringer, André J Int Med Res Retrospective Clinical Research Report OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine how often patients who choose voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) are accompanied by Swiss family physicians, how physicians classify this process, and physicians’ attitudes and professional stance toward VSED. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study between August 2017 and July 2018 among 751 practicing family physicians in Switzerland (response rate 74%; 70.7% men; average age 58 (±9) years). We used a standardized evidence-based questionnaire for the survey. RESULTS: VSED is well-known among family physicians (81.9%), and more than one-third (42.8%) had accompanied at least one patient during VSED. In 2017, 1.1% of all deaths that occurred in Swiss nursing homes or in a private home were owing to VSED. This phenomenon was classified as a natural dying process (59.3%), passive euthanasia (32.0%), or suicide (5.3%). CONCLUSIONS: Although about one in three Swiss family physicians have accompanied a person during VSED, family physicians lack sufficient in-depth knowledge to address patients and their relatives in an appropriate manner during the process. Further training and development of practice recommendations are needed to achieve more standardized accompaniment of VSED. International Registered Report Identifier: DERR1-10.2196/10358 SAGE Publications 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7427036/ /pubmed/32787706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520936069 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Retrospective Clinical Research Report Stängle, Sabrina Schnepp, Wilfried Büche, Daniel Häuptle, Christian Fringer, André Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title | Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Retrospective Clinical Research Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32787706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520936069 |
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