Acceptance of / agreement with assisted suicide (measured using selected items from the Euthanasia Questionnaire)
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Participants read a newspaper article reporting on a case of assisted suicide that is not consistent with current media recommendations, followed by a statement from a professional associatio
Sponsors
Medizinische Universität Wien
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Sufficient German language skills
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Insufficient German language skills
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Acceptance of / agreement with assisted suicide (measured using selected items from the Euthanasia Questionnaire); single assessment; duration of data collection for the primary endpoint: approximately 1 minute; total duration of data collection per participant: 20–25 minutes. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Attitudes toward suicide (measured with the General Attitudes Toward Suicide Scale), attitudes toward suicide prevention (measured with the Policy Attitudes Toward Suicide Prevention Scale), attitudes toward palliative care (measured with the Cognitive Subscale of the Palliative Care Attitudes Scale), attitudes toward suicide among individuals suffering from incurable diseases (measured with the Attitudes Toward Suicide of Individuals Suffering from Incurable Diseases Scale), stigmatizing attitudes toward older people (measured with the Ambivalent Ageism Scale), hopelessness (measured with the short form of the Beck Hopelessness Scale), reactance toward the statement (measured with a reactance questionnaire), and priming / framing effects (measured using word completion tasks); duration of data collection for secondary endpoints: approximately 10 minutes; total duration of data collection per participant: 20–25 minutes. | — |
Countries
Austria
Contacts
Public ContactBenedikt Till
Medizinische Universität Wien
Outcome results
None listed