Implementing voluntary assisted dying laws in healthcare: Exploring beliefs to identify implementation hurdles.

ABSTRACT: The number of countries introducing voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws is increasing. Actively taking steps to end a person's life is contentious so implementing these laws into healthcare services presents unique challenges. Theoretically underpinned by the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this study identified the beliefs of classes of stakeholders who engaged with the parliamentary process associated with the introduction of VAD laws in Queensland, Australia. Submissions about VAD made to a parliamentary inquiry were allocated to a class and qualitatively analysed to identify underlying beliefs. The data were then subjected to statistical analysis including nonmetric dimensional scaling and one-way analysis of similarity. Data visualisation techniques were used to generate a chord map and

SUBMITTER: Hewitt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107130 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature