A Concern that may Affect the Quality of End-of-Life Care: Turkish Nursing Students' Death Anxiety.

Background: Nursing students have difficulties in the care of terminally ill patients in clinical education. Student's death anxiety may affect the quality of patient care negatively. Objective: This study was conducted as a descriptive study in order to determine nursing students' death anxiety and...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 252 - 263
Autor principal: Rizalar, Selda
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: International Journal of Caring Sciences Jan-Apr2026
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        au: Rizalar, Selda
        affil: PhD Professor, Department of Surgical Nursing, University of Healh Science, Hamidiye Nursing Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
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          Quality of Health Care
          Terminal Care
          Students, Nursing Psychosocial Factors
          Death Psychosocial Factors
          Attitude to Death Evaluation
          Anxiety
          Student Attitudes Evaluation
          Human
          Turkiye
          Descriptive Research
          Scales
          Male
          Female
          Sex Factors
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Adolescence
          Young Adult
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
          Kruskal-Wallis Test
          Mann-Whitney U Test
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Background: Nursing students have difficulties in the care of terminally ill patients in clinical education. Student's death anxiety may affect the quality of patient care negatively. Objective: This study was conducted as a descriptive study in order to determine nursing students' death anxiety and the factors affecting it. Method: The research was carried out with 527 students enrolled in the Nursing Department of a foundation university in Istanbul. Data were collected with the Thorson Powell death anxiety scale and were evaluated with the number, percentile, mean, standard deviation, Man Whitney-U, Kruskal Wallis and Tamhane tests. Results: The mean death anxiety score of the nursing students was found to be 58.59 ± 14.76 (16-100). There was a difference between the mean death anxiety scores according to the independent variables such as gender, grade and willingness to care (p<0.05). Female students had a significantly higher mean death anxiety score compared to males. The mean death anxiety scores of the first and third year students were higher than the second year students. The death anxiety score of students who were reluctant to care for terminally ill patients were higher than those who were willing (p< 0.05). Conclusion: Nursing students experience considerable death anxiety while providing end-of-life care in clinical practice. Especially the anxiety of female students, those in certain grades and the reluctant ones needs to be addressed.
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