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KMID : 0377619770330060619
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1977 Volume.33 No. 6 p.619 ~ p.631
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A Comparative Study on the Attitudes toward Death among Nursing Students and General Students
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Abstract
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In an attempt to assist in education for nursing students and nursing clinics and in caring for terminally ill patients, a study on the attitudes toward death of nursing students and general students was carried out. 262 nursing students and 200 general students were selected for this study from Sept. 17, 1977 to Sept. 30, 1977 and data were collected through "Schneidman Questionnaire".
The results for this study were as follows.
1.2 In general concepts of death, the first sighting of occurrence of death was experienced upon grandfather or great grand father. 40% of selective subj-ects had never discussed this death. There was significant differences in believing influence of death by psychological factors between nursing studen-ts and general students.
2. As to the attitudes toward death, the religion more influenced on the nur-sing students than on the general students. But there was no significant differences in the fear of death between nursing students and general stud-ents. Most of them did not want to know the day of their own death to be occurred.
3. The frequency of thinking their own death was more in nursing students than in general students, and most of them wanted solemn and quiet death under assumption. There was significant differences in wanting the inform-ation on their own incurable disease under assumption between nursing stu-dents and general students.
4. As to disposal of corpse under assumption that it had already occurred the selective subjects had the tendency for cremation system.
There was significant in donation of their own organs for transplantation to anyone between nursing students and general students.
5. On the life-after-death, about half of them were sure of it. There was no
significant differences in it between nursing students and general students. 6. There was significant differences in experience of attempt of suicide between nursing students and general students.
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