KMID : 0856920130160010033
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care 2013 Volume.16 No. 1 p.33 ~ p.41
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Death Anxiety and Terminal Care Stress among Nurses and the Relationship to Terminal Care Performance
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Woo Young-Wha
Kim Kyung-Hee Kim Ki-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to examine how nurses¡¯ death anxiety and terminal care stress affect their terminal care performance in the clinical setting.
Methods: The study enrolled 180 registered nurses with experience of attending dying patients at a university hospital located in Seoul, Korea. Collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and Pearson¡¯s correlation using SPSS 18.0 for Windows.
Results: Nurses showed significant differences in the level of death anxiety and terminal care stress as well as terminal care performance by working division, marital status, educational background and hospice training. A significant relationship was found between terminal care stress and terminal care performance.
Conclusion: The study results showed that efforts to ease nurses¡¯ death anxiety and terminal care stress could improve their terminal care performance. Further study should be conducted to investigate other factors that affect nurses¡¯ terminal care performance from various perspectives and develop a terminal care manual which can be used as guidance for nurses in charge of terminal patient care.
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KEYWORD
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Death, Anxiety, Terminal care, Stress, Nursing services
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