Correlation between nurses’ attitudes towards death and their subjective well-being

Zhang, Jiali; Tao, Hongmei; Mao, Jundan; Qi, Xue; Zhou, Hongzhen

doi:10.21037/apm-21-2943

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“…No entanto, não foi possível comparar esses resultados à luz da literatura, uma vez que estudos anteriores sobre como os profissionais lidam com a morte utilizaram principalmente indicadores específicos como autoeficácia na morte (24)(25) , atitude em relação à morte (26)(27)(28) ou a origem desses recursos, sejam eles intrínsecos ou extrínsecos (3) . Entre enfermeiros, muitos dos estudos realizados recentemente têm um desenho qualitativo (3,(5)(6) .…”

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“…Além disso, embora os participantes tenham relatado habilidades adaptativas que os ajudaram a reagir de forma eficaz e eficiente em relação à perda de um paciente, estudos anteriores apontaram a importância dos hospitais oferecerem orientação psicológica aos funcionários (26)(27)29) . Essa estratégia pode ajudar os profissionais a gerenciarem o impacto emocional desse fenômeno em sua vida pessoal e, consequentemente, melhorar o cuidado prestado (26)(27)29) . Nesse sentido, entende-se que é importante que os órgãos responsáveis implementem ações de promoção da saúde mental para os enfermeiros guianenses, considerando as orientações relatadas em relatório da Organização Mundial da Saúde quanto ao fortalecimento dos sistemas de atenção à saúde mental e à reformulação dos ambientes que influenciam a saúde mental em todo o mundo (30) .…”

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Coping styles of Guyanese nurses in the face of patients’ deaths: A cross-sectional study

Sampson

Baldassarini

Oliveira

et al. 2023

SMAD, Rev Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog

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Objective: to investigate nurses’ strategies to cope with patients’ deaths and to explore potentialinfluences of cultural aspects on this phenomenon. Methodology: this is a cross-sectional study.The participants were 85 Registered Nurses from a Guyanese regional hospital. Data collectionwas carried out using a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Coping Strategies Inventoryby Lazarus and Folkman. Descriptive statistics and the Spearman’s correlation test, Student’st-test and Kruskal-Wallis test were performed to explore the data obtained. Results: most of theparticipants were women (85.9%) of African descent (56.5%). The mean age was 29.63 years old(SD=8.98), varying from 20 to 55 years old. Nurses have adopted the Planful problem-solving,Self-controlling and Positive reappraisal coping strategies to deal with patients’ deaths, and religionexerted an influence on the coping style they mentioned. Years as a Registered Nurse had positivecorrelations between the Planned problem-solving, Positive reappraisal, Seeking social support andDistancing coping styles related to patients’ deaths. Nurses professing the Hindu religion presentedhigher scores related to the Escape-avoidance coping style. Conclusion: even without specifictraining in coping with death, Guyanese nurses have adopted adequate coping strategies to dealwith this phenomenon. Cultural beliefs, such as religions of different philosophical and spiritualframeworks, may influence nurses’ coping strategies in the face of patients’ deaths.

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Coping styles of Guyanese nurses in the face of patients’ deaths: A cross-sectional study

Sampson

Baldassarini

Oliveira

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SMAD, Rev Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog

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“…In the study by Gaworska-Krzemińska [16], attitudes towards death among nurses also correlated with the seniority of the respondents. Zhang et al found a correlation between nurses' attitudes towards death and their subjective well-being [17]. Barnett et al claimed that among hospice nurses more positive attitudes toward care of the dying were associated with lower fear of death and death avoidance [18].…”

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Thanatic attitudes of nurses working in the intensive care unit

Wojczyk¹,

Dębska²

2022

ppiel

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Introduction:The intensive care unit is one of the places where the work of nurses is accompanied by death. Aim of the study: To indicate the most common thanatic attitudes presented by nurses working in the intensive care unit. Material and methods: The study was performed by diagnostic survey questionnaire technique. The tool was the author's own questionnaire supplemented with the Scale of Attitudes to Death, which is part of the Inventory of Attitudes to Death by J. Makselon. The study involved 108 nurses working in the intensive care unit of the University Hospital in Krakow. Results: The most commonly represented thanatic attitude in the studied population was the attitude of value (85% of respondents). Other attitudes related to death were as follows: necessity, mystery, or tragedy. Most thanatic attitudes slightly positively (0.21 ≤ r ≤ 0.3) correlate with the age of the respondents, i.e. with the increase in the age of nurses, the intensity of thanatic attitudes such as tragedy, terror, absurdity, destructiveness, centrality, and value increased. The attitude of tragedy correlated most strongly with age (p = 0.002). Conclusions: Nurses working in the intensive care unit most often showed an attitude of necessity and value regarding death. The centrality attitude did not occur in the group of respondents. The attitudes of the nurses relating to death depend on age, while the length of work in the intensive care unit and the number of experienced deaths do not affect their diversity.

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“…t-test results for groups experienced 10 or less vs. more than 10 deaths Level of anger with more life experience. For example, Zhang et al found a correlation between nurses' attitudes towards death and their subjective well-being in life[15]. Other observations were presented in the study byPehlivan et al, where the experience of the death of a loved one had a significant impact on both the feeling of fear related to death and the negative attitude towards death, dying and euthanasia[16].…”

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Emotions Related to Death among Nurses Working in the Intensive Care Unit

Wojczyk,

Dębska

2023

PNN

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Introduction. Nurses working in intensive care units often encounter the death of their patients, which affects their emotional state, and then not only their work but also their personal lives. Aim. The aim of the study is to present the most common emotions towards death in nurses caring for life-threatening patients. Material and Methods. The cross-sectional study was conducted on a group of 108 nurses working in the intensive care unit of the University Hospital in Krakow. Respondents completed a proprietary questionnaire based on the standard tool, the Scale of Feelings, in which they marked the intensity of individual emotions experienced in connection with death. The data was developed based on the instructions of the authors of the tool and, using the capabilities of the Statistica 12 package, the existing dependencies were presented. Results. The most common emotion related to death, in terms of basic emotions that accompanied the respondents, was fear (x̅=4.45) and sadness (x̅=4.08). In the subcategories of basic emotions, the most frequently declared feelings were: sadness (x̅=5.69), grief (x̅=5.43) and anxiety (x̅=4.71). There was no correlation between the emotions and the respondents’ age or their declared professional experience (p>0.05). Only the level of anger was significantly more frequent in the group of respondents who rarely experienced death at work, i.e. less than 10 deaths (p=0.03). Conclusions. The difficult experience of death for nurses working in the intensive care unit most often triggered fear and sadness in them. It is therefore necessary to conduct further research to determine the exact attitudes towards death among medical personnel who come into contact with death in order to reduce their negative impact on the work and personal lives of carers of dying people. (JNNN 2023;12(1):17–23)

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Correlation between nurses’ attitudes towards death and their subjective well-being

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Coping styles of Guyanese nurses in the face of patients’ deaths: A cross-sectional study

Coping styles of Guyanese nurses in the face of patients’ deaths: A cross-sectional study

Thanatic attitudes of nurses working in the intensive care unit

Emotions Related to Death among Nurses Working in the Intensive Care Unit

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