Abstract
Modern technology offers extraordinary life-saving opportunities that were not imaginable in old times. However, it also takes us to a new frontier where the challenge of life-saving becomes death-prolonging. More than a decade after the Patient Self-Determination Act which guarantees the individual's legal right to decide the end-of-life care, the utilization of this right has seen no significant increase. The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the variables that influence the decision-making responses related to Advance Directives (ADs). A path model applying Roy's Adaptation Model was developed for the study. Publicly accessible data collected for the Longitudinal Study of Aging from 1984 to 2000 constituted the study sample.
Sigma Membership
Alpha Epsilon
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Descriptive/Correlational
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
End-of-Life Care Choices, Complicating Factors, Health Choices
Advisor
Carolyn C. Kee
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
Georgia State University
Degree Year
2004
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Weihua, "Factors influencing end-of-life decisions regarding the living will and durable power of attorney: An application of Roy's Adaptation Model" (2020). Dissertations. 1154.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1154
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2020-02-20
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3136115; ProQuest document ID: 305186184. The author still retains copyright.