|
KMID : 0922320220290030251
|
|
Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Care Nursing
2022 Volume.29 No. 3 p.251 ~ p.261
|
|
|
Association of Perceptions and Anxiety of Home Health Nurses about Death, on their Attitudes to Terminal Care
|
|
Kim Suk-Hee
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which in-hospital-based home health nurses’ perceptions and anxiety about death following terminal care, affects their attitudes toward terminal care.
Methods: The subjects were 128 advanced practice nurses working in hospital-based facilities for home health care, located in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Incheon Metropolitan City. Data were collected from May 3, 2019, to June 3, 2019, using structured questionnaires, on terminal care and related variables based on the literature. Data were analyzed by performing the Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation, and multivariable stepwise regression using the SPSS Version 25.0 program.
Results: The scores of the attitudes toward terminal care of home health care nurses was 3.25 points out of a possible 4 points. Factors affecting nurses’ attitudes toward terminal care were their concern about death(β=0.45, p＜0.001), religion(β=-0.26, p=0.001) and the anxiety of others about dying(β=-0.23, p=0.003), which explained 32.0% of the observed variance concerning the factors affecting nurses’ attitudes toward terminal care.
Conclusion: Through this study, concern about death, anxiety about how other people process dying, and religion, were found to be associated factors. The more concerned the nurses were about death and the less their anxiety about how others process dying, the better the home health care nurses’ attitude toward implementing terminal care.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Anxiety, Death, Home health nurse, Perception, Terminal care
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|