Table 2.
Students' opinion on specific problems of palliative care before and after education programme.
| Question and answer's option | Percentlty of Medicine students | P value* within the group | Percentage of indicated answers by Division of Nursing students | P value* within the group | P value* between the groups | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | |||
| Are there situations when resuscitation of a child may not be initiated? |
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| Yes | 91.3 | 98.1 | 0.001 | 56.4 | 100 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.588 |
| No | 2.2 | 0.6 | 25.5 | 0 | ||||
| I do not know | 6.6 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 0 | ||||
| Would you decide on euthanasia act in a patient? | ||||||||
| Yes | 11.5 | 9.5 | 0.419 | 21.8 | 9.1 | 0.065 | 0.035 | 0.925 |
| No | 88.5 | 90.5 | 78.2 | 90.9 | ||||
| What would you choose in situation of suffering from a progressing, untreatable disease? | ||||||||
| Natural death | 59.7 | 75.4 | <0.001 | 87.3 | 76.4 | 0.138 | <0.001 | 0.1 |
| Euthanasia | 28.4 | 17.9 | 12.7 | 23.6 | ||||
| Physician-assisted suicide | 11.8 | 6.7 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Should be euthanasia legally available in Poland? | ||||||||
| Yes | 2.5 | 3.5 | 0.048 | 0 | 3.6 | 0.009 | <0.001 | 0.895 |
| Yes, but only if special criteria had been fulfilled | 58.5 | 47.9 | 28 | 52.7 | ||||
| No | 39 | 48.6 | 72 | 43.6 | ||||
*Pearson's χ 2Test.