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KMID : 1141620220340010027
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Health & Nursing
2022 Volume.34 No. 1 p.27 ~ p.35
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Influence of Spiritual Wellbeing and Attitude toward Death on Terminal Care Attitude among Korean Nursing Students
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Lee Chang-Kwan
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to explore the influences of spiritual wellbeing and attitude toward death on terminal care attitude among Korean nursing students.
Methods: The participants were 146 nursing undergraduates from two nursing schools in Korea. The students responded to a self-report questionnaire that included demographics, spiritual wellbeing, attitude toward death and terminal care attitude.
Results: In total, 71.9% of the participants were religious, 95.2%, and 67.8% had hospice education. The mean score of spiritual wellbeing of the students who were religious was significantly higher than among those who were not. Regression analysis indicated that existential spiritual wellbeing, attitude toward death, and Christian schooling were the most significant predictors of terminal care attitude. These explained 39.6% of variation in terminal care attitude.
Conclusion: Death-related education is needed throughout the nursing curriculum including to develop a positive terminal care attitude. In this way, nursing undergraduates will be better prepared to cope positively and constructively with the suffering and death they will encounter and thus may minimize the distress they experience with patient death. may also create a significant positive increase in nurses’ terminal care attitude.
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KEYWORD
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Spiritual Wellbeing, Attitude toward Death, Terminal Care Attitude, Nursing Students
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