OBJECTIVES:To discover what factors affect lay people's judgments of the acceptability of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia and how these factors interact. DESIGN:Participants rated the acceptability of either physician assisted suicide or euthanasia for 72 patient vignettes with a five factor design--that is, all combinations of patient's age (three levels); curability of illness (two levels); degree of suffering (two levels); patient's mental status (two levels), and extent of patient's requests for the procedure (three levels). PARTICIPANTS:Convenience sample of 66 young adults, 62 middle aged adults, and 66 older adults living in western France. MAIN MEASUREMENTS:In accordance with the functional theory of cognition of N H Anderson, main effects, and interactions among patient factors and participants' characteristics were investigated by means of both graphs and ANOVA. RESULTS:Patient requests were the most potent determinant of acceptability. Euthanasia was generally less acceptable than physician assisted suicide, but this difference disappeared when requests were repetitive. As their own age increased, participants placed more weight on patient age as a criterion of acceptability. CONCLUSIONS:People's judgments concur with legislation to require a repetition of patients' requests for a life ending act. Younger people, who frequently are decision makers for elderly relatives, place less emphasis on patient's age itself than do older people.

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目的:发现哪些因素影响人们对医生辅助自杀和安乐死的可接受性的判断,以及这些因素如何相互作用。
设计:参与者通过五因素设计(即患者年龄的所有组合(三个级别))对72名患者晕厥的医生辅助自杀或安乐死的可接受性进行了评估。疾病的可治愈性(两个级别);苦难程度(两个层次);病人的精神状态(两个等级),以及病人对手术要求的程度(三个等级)。
参与者:居住在法国西部的66位年轻人,62位中年成年人和66位老年人的便利性样本。
主要测量:根据对N H Anderson认知的功能理论,通过图表和方差分析对主要影响以及患者因素与参与者特征之间的相互作用进行了研究。
结果:患者的要求是最有效的可接受性决定因素。安乐死通常不如医生协助自杀,但是当要求重复时,这种区别就消失了。随着年龄的增长,参与者将更多的患者体重作为可接受性的标准。
结论:人们的判断与立法一致,要求重复患者对生命终结法的要求。年轻人通常是老年人亲戚的决策者,与老年人相比,他们对患者年龄本身的重视程度较低。

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