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Table 1 Participant year levels and answers to question 1 (section 2)

From: New Zealand medical students’ views of euthanasia/assisted dying across different year levels

Q1: ‘Do you think the law in New Zealand should be changed to allow doctors, under certain circumstances, to provide or administer a medicine to a person, at their voluntary and competent request, that will bring about their death?’

Year levels

Yes

No

Unsure

Total

Response rate

2nd

68 (64.8%)

15 (14.3%)

22 (21.0%)

105

35%

3rd

57 (62.6%)

18 (19.8%)

16 (17.6%)

91

31%

4th

34 (51.5%)

16 (24.2%)

16 (24.2%)

66

22%

5th

25 (39.1%)

22 (34.4%)

17 (26.6%)

64

23%