Attitudes towards euthanasia among final-year Khartoum University medical students;Attitudes à l'égard de l'euthanasie chez des étudiants en dernière année de médecine à l'Université de Khartoum

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 391-397

  Ahmed, A M ^a   Kheir, M M ^b  

^a University of Bahr Elghazal   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SUDAN; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; ISLAM; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF EFFICACY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUDAN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33749542538     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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