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- Title
Nurses' self-regulation after engaging in end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients: a qualitative study.
- Authors
Du, Jiayi; An, Zifen; Wang, Chunyu; Yu, Liping
- Abstract
Background: Self-regulation is crucial for nurses who engage in in-depth end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients, especially in cultural contexts featuring death taboos. An improved understanding of the self-regulation process of nurses can help them address negative emotions and promote self-growth more effectively. Therefore, this study aimed to explore nurses' self-regulation process after end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients. Methods: This study employed a descriptive, qualitative approach. Seventeen nurses from four hospitals and a hospice unit in mainland China were interviewed between September 2022 and June 2023. Data were collected through face-to-face semistructured interviews. A thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data following the guidance of regulatory focus theory. Results: Three main themes were developed: self-regulation antecedents include personality, experience, and support; promotion or prevention is a possible self-regulation process for nurses; both self-exhaustion and self-growth may be the outcomes of self-regulation, as did seven subthemes. Personality tendencies, life experience, and perceived support may affect nurses' self-regulation, thereby affecting their self-regulation outcomes. Conclusions: Nurses exhibit different self-regulatory tendencies and self-regulation outcomes. The provision of peer support and counselling support to nurses is highly important with regard to achieving good self-regulation outcomes.
- Subjects
CHINA; NURSE-patient relationships; WORK; HOSPICE nurses; CONVERSATION; QUALITATIVE research; RESEARCH funding; INTERVIEWING; STATISTICAL sampling; SELF-control; CANCER patients; JUDGMENT sampling; HOSPITALS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THEMATIC analysis; GAMES; RESEARCH methodology; PERSONALITY; NURSES' attitudes; TERMINAL care; COUNSELING; SOCIAL support; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; EXPERIENTIAL learning; EDUCATIONAL attainment; HOSPICE care
- Publication
BMC Nursing, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6955
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12912-024-02016-6