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. 2013 Dec 31;2013:498082. doi: 10.1155/2013/498082

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?
 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.