Intern Nursing Students' Death-Related Anxiety, Compassion Levels, and Views on End-of-Life Care.
Background: Assessing the death anxiety and compassion levels of nursing interns, who will play a crucial role in providing healthcare services, is essential for raising their awareness about these issues, fostering positive attitudes toward death, and enhancing the quality of care for dying patient...
| Published in: | International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 1340 - 1350 |
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International Journal of Caring Sciences
Sep-Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=192057848&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 192057848 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 17915201 B92O jtl: International Journal of Caring Sciences issn: 17915201 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep-Dec2025 vid: 18 iid: 3 pid: 64496 pub: International Journal of Caring Sciences artinfo: ui: 192057848 192057848 192057848 192057848 ppf: 1340 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Intern Nursing Students' Death-Related Anxiety, Compassion Levels, and Views on End-of-Life Care. aug: au: Yilmaz, Beyza Adadioglu, Oznur affil: Sakarya University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Sakarya, Turkiye sug: subj: Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate Turkiye Students, Nursing, Baccalaureate Psychosocial Factors Interns and Residents Psychosocial Factors Death Psychosocial Factors Anxiety Compassion Terminal Care Student Attitudes Attitude to Death Nurse-Patient Relations Human Male Female Young Adult Turkiye Descriptive Research Correlational Studies Funding Source Death Anxiety Scale Scales Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software T-Tests Analysis of Variance Mann-Whitney U Test Kruskal-Wallis Test Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Sex Factors Terminally Ill Patients Positive Psychology Fear Quality of Nursing Care Male Female ab: Background: Assessing the death anxiety and compassion levels of nursing interns, who will play a crucial role in providing healthcare services, is essential for raising their awareness about these issues, fostering positive attitudes toward death, and enhancing the quality of care for dying patients. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine nursing students' death anxiety, compassion levels and attitudes toward giving care to the dying. Methodology: The sample of this descriptive correlational study comprised of 148 intern nursing students receiving education during the spring term of the 2023-2024 academic year. The data were collected via "The Participant Information Form", "The Compassion Scale", "The Frommelt Attitude toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD)" and "The Death Anxiety Scale". Results: The female students had a higher level of death anxiety (p<0.05). The nursing students who had faced death in their clinic and desired to take care of the dying had higher mean FATCOD scale scores. A correlation was found between the participants' Compassion Scale scores and FATCOD scale scores in a positive way (p<0.01). A correlation was found between the participants' Death Anxiety Scale scores and FATCOD scale scores in a negative direction (p<0.05) Conclusion: As the students' compassion levels increased and death anxiety decreased, their positive attitudes toward giving care to the dying increased. It is possible to update course contents and arrange trainings to increase the compassion levels and decrease the death anxiety of students. By this way, future nurses who are aware of their own feelings about death and can manage death anxiety may become more compassionate and professional in care of the dying and contribute to the increase of care quality. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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