| Item | Attitude toNTD & APS | Attitude tousing lethal drugs | Life preservingattitude | |
| 1 | Physicians should comply with a patient’s request to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment | 0.79 | – | – |
| 2 | If necessary, a terminally ill patient should receive drugs to relieve pain and suffering, even if these drugs may hasten the end of the patient’s life | 0.65 | – | – |
| 3 | A person should have the right to decide whether or not to hasten the end of his or her life | – | 0.70 | −0.78 |
| 4 | In all circumstances physicians should aim to preserve the lives of their patients, even if patients ask for the hastening of the end of their lives | – | – | 0.75 |
| 5 | The use of drugs in lethal doses on the explicit request of the patient is acceptable for patients with a terminal illness with extreme uncontrollable pain or other distress | – | 0.87 | – |
| 6 | If a terminally ill patient is suffering unbearably and is not capable of making decisions, the physician should be allowed to administer drugs in lethal doses | – | 0.81 | – |
| 7 | Permitting the use of drugs in lethal doses on the explicit request of the patient will harm the relationship between patients and physicians | – | – | 0.77 |
| 8 | Clear wishes on withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment of an incompetent patient as expressed in an advance directive must always be respected, even if this could hasten the end of the patient’s life | 0.74 | – | – |
Note: only items with component loading higher than 0.50 were retained in the factors.