The Impact of Pediatric Palliative Care Education on Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes

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 𝜒²Test.