The effect of deliberative process on the self-sacrificial decisions of utilitarian healthcare students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted prosocial behavior as a professional healthcare core competency. Although medical students are expected to work in the best interests of their patients, in the pandemic context, there is a greater need for ethical attention to be paid to the way medical students deal with moral dilemmas that may conflict with their obligations.

Methods

This study was conducted in the spring semester of 2019 on 271 students majoring in health professions: medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. All participants provided informed consent and completed measures that assessed utilitarian moral views, cognitive reflections, cognitive reappraisal, and moral judgment.

Results

The healthcare-affiliated students who scored higher on the in

SUBMITTER: Shin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8933755 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature