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Table 4 Experiences with various methods for ethics discussions and their suitability

From: The Norwegian national project for ethics support in community health and care services

Methods

Experience with the method (% of all respondents, N = 217)

Method currently in use at workplace (% of respondents with experience with the activity)

Method thought to be well suited (% of respondents with experience with the activity)

Unstructured/free reflection

167 (77 %)

133 (80 %)

84 (50 %)

CME 6-step model

125 (58 %)

107 (86 %)

86 (69 %)

Ethics cards

107 (49 %)

62 (58 %)

63 (59 %)

Other discourse ethics model

51 (24 %)

26 (51 %)

24 (47 %)

”Traffic light” method

39 (18 %)

13 (33 %)

14 (36 %)

”Fish bowl” method

30 (14 %)

11 (37 %)

17 (57 %)a

  1. a: Indicated as “not suited” by 11 respondents (37 % of respondents with experience with the method.)