The influence of religious/spiritual beliefs on Malaysian hospital healthcare workers’ attitudes towards suicide and suicidal patients: a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 174498712110085
Author(s):  
Ching Sin Siau ◽  
Lei-Hum Wee ◽  
Suzaily Wahab ◽  
Uma Visvalingam ◽  
Seen Heng Yeoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
Spiritual Beliefs ◽  
Attitudes Towards Suicide ◽  
Formal Integration ◽  
Professional Care ◽  
The Right ◽  
Medical Disciplines ◽  
Suicidal Patients

Background There has been mixed findings on whether a healthcare workers’ religious beliefs contribute positively or negatively to their attitudes towards suicidal patients. Aims This study aims to explore qualitatively the influence of religious/spiritual beliefs on healthcare workers’ attitudes towards suicide and suicidal patients in the culturally heterogeneous Malaysian population. Methods Thirty-one healthcare workers from diverse religious backgrounds, professions and medical disciplines were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed the centrality of religion in determining healthcare workers’ acceptability of suicide, specific religious beliefs that influenced their views on the right-to-die issue, perceptions of the suicidal patient’s religiousness/spirituality, and the aspects and extent of religious relevance in professional philosophy and practice. Results Healthcare workers who could perceive the multifactorial nature of suicide causation had a more empathetic response. There were high levels of paternalism in the care of suicidal patients, involving unsolicited religious/spiritual advice practised as a form of suicide deterrent and social support. Conclusions The formal integration of religious/spiritual practices into the professional care of suicidal patients was indicated.

scholarly journals Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neury José Botega ◽  
Diogo Gomes Reginato ◽  
Sidney Volk da Silva ◽  
Carlos Filinto da Silva Cais ◽  
Claudemir Benedito Rapeli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Personnel ◽  
Attitude Questionnaire ◽  
Suicide Behavior ◽  
Attitudes Towards Suicide ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Suicidal Patients ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Professional Capacity

OBJECTIVE: To describe the construction of the Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire (SBAQ) which measures attitudes of nursing personnel towards suicide, and verify attitude differences among these professionals. METHODS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire comprises 21 visual analogue scale items (beliefs, feelings and reactions on suicidal patients) selected from a pool of attitude statements generated by focal groups and experts' judgement. The questionnaire was completed by 317 nursing professionals who worked in a teaching hospital. Factor analysis and internal consistency were calculated. RESULTS: Three interpretable factors were extracted, accounting jointly for 40% of the total variance: Feelings when caring for the patient, Professional Capacity and Right to Suicide, comprising 7, 4 and 5 items, respectively. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.7, 0.6 and 0.5, respectively. Greater Professional Capacity was reported by nursing assistants and those who had already took care of suicidal patients. The belief that a person does not have the right to commit suicide was stronger among older professionals, those who had never taken care of suicidal patients, those who had a family history of suicide, those who were Protestants and that used to go more frequently to church services. CONCLUSIONS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire proved to be user-friendly and quite a simple instrument to assess attitude towards suicide among nursing personnel.

The Right to Die: Healthcare Workers' Attitudes Compared with a National Public Poll

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
National Poll ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
Great Pain ◽  
The Right

Attitudes toward the right to die were investigated for hospital nurses and findings compared with a national poll. Both the general public and healthcare workers endorse an individual's right to self-determination. Nursing staff reported significant agreement that there are circumstances in which a person should be allowed to die, people have the right to make their own healthcare decisions, they would stop treatment if they were in great pain or unable to function, and the hospital or doctor should be held legally responsible if a patient's instruction to withhold life-sustaining treatment was ignored. Nurses reported significant disagreement that staff often disregard patient's instructions, that the killing of a spouse in pain can be justified, and people have a moral right to end their own lives if they have become a burden or life has become a burden.

What Kind of a Right Is the ‘Right to Die’?

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Constance E. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Right To Die ◽  
The Right

The Priority of Public Reasons and Religious Forms of Life in Constitutional Democracies

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Cristina Lafont
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
Political Deliberation ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mutual Accountability

In this essay I address the difficult question of how citizens with conflicting religious and secular views can fulfill the democratic obligation of justifying the imposition of coercive policies to others with reasons that they can also accept. After discussing the difficulties of proposals that either exclude religious beliefs from public deliberation or include them without any restrictions, I argue instead for a policy of mutual accountability that imposes the same deliberative rights and obligations on all democratic citizens. The main advantage of this proposal is that it recognizes the right of all democratic citizens to adopt their own cognitive stance (whether religious or secular) in political deliberation in the public sphere without giving up on the democratic obligation to provide reasons acceptable to everyone to justify coercive policies with which all citizens must comply.

The Right To Die

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 2S-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. PATRICK HILL
Keyword(s):  
Right To Die ◽  
The Right
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