Attitudes of Borabue hospital’s physicians Toward Living wills

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the attitudes of physicians about the living wills and its
benefit in the hospitalized. Thirteen physicians that working in Borabue hospital was the target group of this study, using
in-depth interview and the data were analyzed by content analysis.The findings revealed that most of the physicians agree with Palliative care and using of documented living
wills in hospitalized. Most of them believed that the living will would led to the end of life decision making easier.
However, the most appropriate conditions to talk about writing the living wills was when the end stage of diseases was
diagnosed. Some surveillance issues was the confusion of the physicians between DNR Order and living wills. This
study revealed that 27% of the physicians misunderstood that living will was the same as DNR Order. The encouragement
of the knowledge about living will would protect this problem in the future
Keywords : Living wills, Palliative care, Physicianûs attitudes