Skip to main content

Table 1 Respondent Attitudes toward Various Bioethical Problems

From: Bioethical differences between drug addiction treatment professionals inside and outside the Russian Federation

 

Russian (n = 246)

Foreign (n = 92)

 

Support

Do Not Support

Can't Say

Support

Do Not Support

Can't Say

1. Do you support or not support the idea of legalizing euthanasia, when a terminally ill patient, after consultation with a committee of treating doctors, is allowed to decide to voluntarily end his life?

41.5%**

38.6%

19.9%

69.6%

13.0%

17.4%

2. Do you support or not support the procedure for gender reassignment surgery for a person who is diagnosed with transsexualism, and who has no psychological problems?

61.0%*

27.6%

11.4%

76.1%

13.0%

10.9%

3. Is Homosexuality, from your point of view, an illness that requires treatment, or not an illness?

21.1%

62.2%

16.7%

13.0%

76.1%

10.9%

4. What is your attitude to experiments on human cloning?

27.6%

44.3%

28.1%

32.6%

37.0%

30.4%

5. Do you think it's acceptable to terminate a pregnancy (abort) in the early stages, at the woman's request, when there are no medical reasons for terminating the pregnancy?

77.7%**

15.0%

7.3%

95.7%

4.3%

0%

6. In your opinion, is the procedure for extracting placental stem cells morally permissible or impermissible?

70.3%*

12.6%

17.1%

87.0%

4.3%

8.7%

7. In your opinion, should we ease access to use of narcotic analgesics for oncology patients suffering from pain?

87.0%*

8.5%

4.5%

97.8%

2.2%

0%

8. From your point of view, is an HIV-positive patient responsible or not responsible for his illness?

19.5%

43.1%

37.4%

10.9%

47.8%

41.3%

9. Do you think that the transplant of organs donated by a recently deceased person is morally permissible or not permissible?

86.2%

6.1%

7.7%

93.5%

4.3%

2.2%

10. In your opinion, do you think it is morally permissible to force those suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction to undergo compulsory treatment for their medical condition?

62.6% ***

29.3%

8.1%

28.3%

71.7%

0%

11. Do you support, or not support, the idea that mentally ill women should be forbidden to have children and should be forced to undergo sterilization?

40.6% ***

37.8%

21.6%

10.9%

78.3%

8.6%

12. What is your attitude toward the adoption of substitution therapy for drug addiction, which presupposes that the patients, for the management of their medical condition, will receive a prescription for medicines that contain narcotic substances?

51.2% ***

31.3%

17.5%

93.5%

4.3%

2.2%

13. Do you find it morally permissible or impermissible to pursue the prevention of the spread of sexually transmitted HIV infection among teenagers by actively propagandizing "safe sex" practices through use of condoms?

89.8%

4.5%

5.7%

93.5%

2.2%

4.3%

14. Do you find it morally permissible or impermissible to pursue the prevention of the spread of HIV infection through drug injection among drug addicts, by providing access to a needle and syringe exchange?

73.5%*

16.7%

9.8%

87.0%

8.7%

4.3%

15. What is your attitude to the idea of legalizing compulsory (obligatory) testing of school and university students in order to detect and prevent drug addiction?

47.2% ***

39.0%

13.8%

19.6%

69.5%

10.9%

16. In your opinion, should or should not placebo-controlled clinical studies of medical treatments be banned in cases where patients' conditions are acute?

28.5%

37.4%

34.1%

23.9%

45.7%

30.4%

17. Do you think that the principle of informed consent should have exceptions (for example, in psychiatry or drug addiction treatment)?

54.5%**

34.6%

10.9%

30.4%

56.5%

10.9%

18. Do you think that it is morally permissible, or impermissible, to share information about those who are mentally ill or are addicted to drugs with law enforcement services, at their request, in order to support safety in the community?

55.7%**

35.4%

8.9%

24.0%

63.0%

13.0%

19. Do you think that drug addiction is an illness requiring medical treatment (like other illnesses), or is drug addiction a deviant behavior that requires rehabilitation?

75.6%

16.3%

8.1%

73.9%

8.7%

17.4%

  1. Designations: * - p < 0.05; ** - p < 0.01; *** - p < 0.001