Table 1.

Healthcare workers’ main characteristics (N = 30)

Characteristics	Healthcare Workers N = 30
Biological Sex
Male  Female	18 12
Age Category
< 30 years  31-40 years  41-50 years  51-60 years  > 61 years	2 2 5 7 14
Type of work environment1
Specialised end-of-life centres  Psychiatric units/Psychiatric Hospitals  Private or Group Practice  Psychiatric Care Homes  Other	10 9 5 5 4
Background qualifications2
Psychiatrists  General Practitioners  (Secretary) consultants at end-of-life centres3  Psychiatric nurses  Psychologists  Moral Consultants/Spiritual Caregivers  Buddies  Social Workers  Experts by experience4  Specialist Physicians (other than psychiatrists)  Other	10 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 4
Number of concrete experiences in the year prior to the interview5
1–2 cases  3–5 cases  > 5 cases	4 7 19
Physicians’ specific role in recent euthanasia assessment procedures6
Attending/referring physician7  Advising physician  Performing physician  None8	7 10 2 1

¹ Some have more than one work environment

² Some have more than one specific academic and/or professional background or medical end-of-life training

³ These people are entrusted with e.g., the patient-intake and referral at end-of-life information or end-of-life consultation centers

⁴ Experts by experience, i.e. people classified with a (proneness to) mental illness, that are trained to provide support for someone who is ‘new’ to the experience or entering rehabilitation approaches

⁵ With concrete experience, it is meant ‘being confronted with and/or actively engaged in a euthanasia procedure, predominantly based on psychiatric conditions’

⁶ Some had experience in more than 1 role

⁷ Some of these physicians hold a normative stance against euthanasia in the context of psychiatry but fulfilled the minimal physician requirement of referring a patient to a colleague-physician upon the patient’s explicit request (n = 4)

⁸ This physician expressly refused to fulfill the minimal physician requirement due to conscientious objection