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KMID : 0352519920290020493
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Korea Univercity Medical Journal
1992 Volume.29 No. 2 p.493 ~ p.510
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A Descriptive Analysis of Key-concepts, Themes and the Methodologies of Death Studies; -Publeshed in Nursing, Medical and Allied Health Periodicals of Korea-
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Abstract
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160 nursing, medical and allied health periodicals published from January 1967 through December 1989 were reviewed and 360 death and dying articles were sorted. Subject headings, literatures reviewed and concepts defined, and the research problem
statements of 360 articles were reveiwed. Of the 360, the 252 articles which analysed the biological death or/and the statistical facts about death were excluded for this study.
The 108;77 empirical and 31 literary research reports were analysed, key-concepts and themes were identified and classified. 77 empirical research reports were analysed, specific research methodologies used were identified and classified.
@ES Results are summarised as follows;
@EN 1. 4 key-concepts; death, dying, euthanasia and suicide were identified. 50 of death, 46 of suicide, 9 of dying and 3 of euthanasia articles were reported. Only 5 in the 1967-1974 period, 14 in the late 1970s, 40 in the early 1980s and 16 in
the
late 1980s were reported.
34 of 50 death, 7 of 9 dying, 2 of 3 euthanasia researches were reported by nurse researchers while 39 of 46 suicide researches were reported by physician researchers, thus revealed the divergence of interest areas.
2. Survey(56); descriptive(31), comparative(21) and case survey(40 approaches were most frequently used followed by retrospective approaches(10).
In the 1980s, varieties of approaches such as word association(4), Q sorting method(2) and primitive experiments(3) were introduced for death studies.
3. In the 45 death, dying and euthanasia research articles nurses and nursing students revealed to be the most frequently(34) used population sampled. Of the 32 suicide researches, suicidal attemptees were most frequently(30) used research
subjects.
4. For the 45 death, dying and euthanasia researches, indirect self-reports(33) such as Schneidman's DAQ, psychological measurements(5) such as Collett-Lester's, FODS and projective methods like word association(4) were used to gather data. For
most of
the suicide researches, review of the clinical records of the dead and direct self-reports (interview) of the suicidal attemptees and/or the family were used as data gathering methods.
5. In most of the research reports, data were analysed and presented using descriptive statistics-such as frequency distribution. The use of more elaborate descriptive statistics and some inferential statistics appear in very few research reports
of the
1980s.
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