Durà-Vilà, G;
Hodes, M;
(2018)
Cultural and Religious Variation in Attitudes to Young People Consenting to Health Interventions.
Journal of Religion and Health
10.1007/s10943-018-0686-z.
(In press).
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Abstract
There is a limited amount of empirical data available regarding the cultural and religious variation in perceptions about the age when young people should be regarded as competent to make decisions in health settings. A public survey of 400 adults from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds was conducted in the UK and Spain. Attitudes were assessed using case vignettes. It was found that high religious practice was associated with recommending a higher age of consent for medical interventions. White British adults were more likely than Spanish adults to agree that younger adolescents should be allowed to consent to medical interventions. The study suggests that there is social, cultural and religious variation in adults’ attitudes regarding the age when youngsters should consent to health interventions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cultural and Religious Variation in Attitudes to Young People Consenting to Health Interventions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10943-018-0686-z |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0686-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright information © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | UK, Spain, Culture, Consent, Ethics, Psychotherapy, Young people |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10063818 |
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