Understanding the Factors Explaining the Growing Use of Medical Assistance in Dying in Québec: Protocol for an Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods and Multimethods Study

Marie-Ève Bouthillier   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Isabelle Marcoux   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Catherine Perron   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Bruno Gagnon   ^{5, 6} , MD, MSc ;   David Lussier   ⁷ , MD ;   Ghislaine Rouly   ² ;   Mathieu Moreau   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Michel Dorval   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Sabrina Lessard   ^{10, 11} , PhD ;   Dominique Girard   ¹² , PhD ;   Gina Bravo   ¹³ , PhD ;   Maude Hébert   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Michelle Giroux   ¹⁵ , LLL, MA ;   Simon Lemyre   ¹ , MA ;   Alexandra Beaudin   ³ , MSc ;   Claude Julie Bourque   ^{1, 16} , PhD ;   Maryse Soulières   ¹⁷ , PhD ;   Maude Lévesque   ^{11, 18} , PhD ;   Mona Gupta   ¹⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin   ²⁰ , PhD ;   David Lavoie   ⁷ , PhD ;   Bertrand Lavoie   ²¹ , LLD, MA ;   Ariane Plaisance   ²² , PhD ;   Louise Bernier   ²¹ , LLM, LLD ;   Jacinthe Dupuis   ²³ , MCS

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

² Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

³ Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁴ School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

⁵ Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁶ VITAM Sustainable Health Research Center, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁷ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁸ Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁹ Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹¹ Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹² Department of Health Sciences, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada

¹³ Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

¹⁴ Department of Nursing, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

¹⁵ Civil Law Section, Law Faculty, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹⁶ Centre de recherche en pédagogie de la santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹⁷ School of Social Work, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹⁸ School of Social Work, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

²⁰ Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

²¹ Law Faculty, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

²² Qulysis, Québec, QC, Canada

²³ Centre Integre de Sante et de Services Sociaux de Laval, Laval, QC, Canada

*these authors contributed equally