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- Title
Relationship Between Nursing Students' Death Anxiety and Attitudes Toward Dying with Dignity.
- Authors
Cetintas, Ismail; Kostak, Melahat Akgun; Semerci, Remziye; Kocaaslan, Esra Nur
- Abstract
Background: Death anxiety causes health professionals to move away from the patients and may affects their attitudes toward the principles of dying with dignity. Aims: This study aims to determine relationship between death anxiety and attitudes towards the dying with dignity among the nursing students. Methodology: This descriptive research was conducted between September 2017 and May 2018 in the *** University Health Research and Application Center. The study participants were 55 nursing students who had practised in pediatric oncology clinic within the scope of Child Health and Diseases Nursing Course. Data was collected with "Nursing Student Information Form", "Turkish Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS)" and "Assessment Scale of Attitudes Toward Principles About Dying with Dignity (ASAPDD)." Results: The mean age of students 21.69 ± 2.10, 29.1% witnessed death of child patient, and 16.4% witnessed death of child with cancer of them. The students's mean score of TDAS was 39.20 ± 15.61 and their total score mean for ASAPDD was found to be 49.01 ± 9.05. There was no relationship between students' death anxiety and their attitudes towards dying with dignity (p>0.05). Students' death anxiety was affected by status of witnessing death of child and the number of total deaths they witnessed (p<0.05). Students' level of adoption of principles of dying with dignity was affected by status of witnessing the death of the child with cancer (p<0.05). Conclusions: The nursing student's death anxiety is moderate degree and students had a high attitude toward the principles of dying with dignity. Death anxiety of students did not affect their attitudes towards the dying with dignity. It is important that students are supported by their lecturers in dealing with death anxiety and adopting principles of dying with dignity.
- Subjects
ANXIETY; DEATH &; psychology; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOLOGY of nursing students; PEDIATRIC oncology nursing; MANN Whitney U Test; NURSE-patient relationships; CANCER patients; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DIGNITY; STUDENT attitudes; DATA analysis software; STATISTICAL correlation; ATTITUDES toward death; CHILDREN
- Publication
International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 2, p1089
- ISSN
1791-5201
- Publication type
Article