The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes of the elderly towards euthanasia.
The aims of this research study were achieved by gathering data from a number of elderly
respondents aged 65 and older at several old age homes in the Bloemfontein area. Six old
age homes were involved in this study with a slightly greater concentration coming from
Bloemfontein N=89 (44.5%), while the distribution was relatively even across the other
two broader residential areas N=55 (27.5%) in Heidedal, and N=56 (28%) in Mangaung.
A biographical questionnaire as well as the Euthanasia Attitude Scale was used. The
influence of three variables such as, race, religious beliefs and gender, on the attitudes of
the elderly people towards euthanasia was investigated. One-way ANOVA analysis was
used. After statistical analysis, the variable found to have the greatest influence on the
attitudes of the elderly towards euthanasia was race. Other variables, religious beliefs and
gender were not found to have a significant correlation to euthanasia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ufs/oai:etd.uovs.ac.za:etd-08232005-112238 |
| Date | 23 August 2005 |
| Creators | Ramabele, Thato |
| Contributors | Prof A le Roux |
| Publisher | University of the Free State |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en-uk |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-08232005-112238/restricted/ |
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