Volume : IV, Issue : V, May - 2014

ATTITUDE TOWARDS EUTHANASIA AMONG PROFESSIONALS AND SPECIAL CONCERN GROUPS

V. Lazar, K. Lalitha, B. Ravindra

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 Health is a major concern for all. When individual suffers from severe illness or disease, it affects quality of life  of an individual. When one suffers from chronic diseases like Cancer, HIV, Dementia etc., and with severe disability, the desire to die leads to the concept of Euthanasia which is known as Mercy killing. In the present study an attitudes  towards euthanasia was collected from professionals like Doctors (N=30) Lawyers (N=30) and Nurse(N=30) and special  concern groups like Aged (N=90); HIV Patients(N=60) and Terminally ill(N=100) by using an adapted version of Euthanasia  Attitude Scale(EAS) by Holloway et. al.,(1995). The data was collected by using purposive sampling technique and by prior  consent of the subject. Result shows that there are significant differences in attitude towards euthanasia by professionals  and special concern groups.

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V.LAZAR, K. LALITHA, B.RAVINDRA ATTITUDE TOWARDS EUTHANASIA AMONG PROFESSIONALS AND SPECIAL CONCERN GROUPS Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 5 May 2014

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