Emotional impact on healthcare providers involved in medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) traverses challenging and emotionally overwhelming territories: healthcare providers (HCPs) across jurisdictions experience myriad of affective responses secondary to possible tensions between normative and interwoven values, such as sanctity of life, dignity in death and dying and duty to care.

Objective

To determine the emotional impact on HCPs involved in MAiD.

Methods

Inclusion restricted to English language qualitative research studies from four databases (OVID Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Scopus), from beginning until 30 April 2021, and grey literature up to August 2021 were searched. Key author, citation and reference searches were undertaken. We excluded studies without rigorous qualitative research methodology. Inc

SUBMITTER: Dholakia SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295670 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature