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- Title
Effectiveness of a training program for nurses' emotional management of patient death.
- Authors
Pais, Nelson Jacinto; Batista Costeira, Cristina Raquel; Marques Silva, Armando Manuel; Pinheiro Borges Moreira, Isabel Maria
- Abstract
Background: Death is a common reality in hospital settings, requiring nurses to adopt effective strategies for managing their emotions. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of a training program for nurses' emotional management of patient death. Methodology: A one-group pretest-posttest pre-experimental study was conducted in a sample of 20 nurses working in oncology inpatient units. Data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of the Portuguese versions of the Revised Death Attitude Profile (Escala de Avaliação do Perfil de Atitudes acerca da Morte - EAPAM) and the Coping with Death Scale (ECM), and the Program Implementation Assessment Scale (EAIP), applied at three different periods. Results: The training program changed nurses' attitudes in the dimensions of fear of death and neutral acceptance (EAPAM). Significant differences were found in coping with one's own death and the death of others (ECM), revealing improved skills in this area. The training program was rated as very good (EAIP). Conclusion: The implementation of the training program proves to be an effective strategy for improving nurses' emotional management of death.
- Subjects
NURSING education; CLINICAL trials; EMOTION regulation; FISHER exact test; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING practice; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; ATTITUDES toward death; QUANTITATIVE research; PRE-tests &; post-tests; EVALUATION of human services programs; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HOSPITAL nursing staff; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Revista de Enfermagem Referência, 2020, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0874-0283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12707/RV20023