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Attitudes of nurses toward euthanasia in terminally ill patients in critical care areas of a hospital in Lima, 2020
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2020-07-27) Huamán Solórzano, Yul Roberth; Uturunco Vera, Milagros Lizbeth
Aim. To characterize the attitudes of nurses towards euthanasia in terminally ill patients in critical areas of a Hospital in Lima. Year 2020. Materials and methods. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in a sample made up of 52 nurses who were surveyed, and the rating scale was applied: Scale of attitudes towards euthanasia. The collected data were entered into a database of the SPSS 21 program; They were processed with the percentile test. Results. A little less than half of the nurses surveyed (40.4%) indicated attitudes in favor of euthanasia in terminally ill patients, followed by a figure close to the attitude of rejection (36.5%). In the perception of knowledge dimension, attitudes in favor of euthanasia stood out, in a little less than half (40.4%), followed by a neutral attitude in a little less than a third (32.7%). In the affective dimension, a little more than a third expressed neutral attitudes towards Euthanasia (36.5%), followed by a close figure in favor of attitudes (34.6%). In the behavioral dimension, there was a predominance of neutral attitude, in just under half (40.4%), with a slight tendency towards attitudes of rejection of euthanasia in more than a third (34.6%). Conclusions. The attitudes of nurses towards euthanasia in terminally ill patients are in favor in just under half. However, a close figure expresses rejection of Euthanasia, which represents a divided controversy, with a slight tendency of nurses with attitudes in favor of euthanasia in terminally ill patients in critical areas of a Hospital in Lima.