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KMID : 0379720200340020211
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2020 Volume.34 No. 2 p.211 ~ p.224
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Death Attitude, Death Anxiety and Knowledge toward Advance Directives among Nursing Students
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Choo In-Hee
Kim Eun-Ha
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate death attitude, death anxiety, and knowledge toward advance directives of nursing students.
Method: Participants were 157 nursing undergraduates in Korea. The students responded to a self-reporting questionnaire that included demographics, Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R), Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS), and knowledge toward advance directives. The data collection period was December, 9-13, 2019. Data were analyzed by descriptive test, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient with SPSS/WIN 23.0.
Results: The mean scores for death attitude, death anxiety, and knowledge toward advance directives were 2.70±0.58, 2.45±0.49, and 7.94±2.04, respectively. Knowledge toward advance directives was significantly different according to age, grade, and experience of end-of-life care education. Death attitude was significantly associated with death anxiety (r=. 27, p<.001).
Conclusion: Knowledge toward advance directive was relatively low compared to the findings of previous studies. Therefore, nursing colleges need to include legal and institutional aspects when writing written letters on advance directive, death attitude, and ethical approaches to death anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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Attitude to death, Anxiety, Students, Nursing, Advance directives
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