Death Attitudes, Palliative Care Self-efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Among Hospice Nurses

Barnett, Michael D.; Reed, Christopher M.; Adams, Cassidy M

doi:10.1007/s10880-020-09714-8

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“…This study found that self-efficacy was also a factor that influenced the nurses’ attitudes toward hospice care, which was consistent with the research of Barnett et al 26 Barnett et al suggested that the nurses’ positive attitude toward hospice care was related to their perception of hospice care. The greater the nurses’ self-efficacy, the more positive their attitudes were toward hospice care.…”

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Attitudes of Front-Line Nurses Toward Hospice Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu

Gao

et al. 2020

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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Objective: The aim of this study was to understand the attitudes of front-line clinical nurses toward hospice care in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, to provide a source of reference for hospice care education and training in hospitals treating patients with COVID-19. Method: Front-line nurses from a designated COVID-19 hospital in Wuhan, China, participated. Participants completed the Chinese versions of the General Information Questionnaire, the Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale, the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, and the General Self-Efficacy Scale. Results: A total of 149 questionnaires were included in the analysis. The median total hospice care attitudes score was median 102.00(interquartile range, 95.5-120.50). The nurses’ attitudes toward hospice care were significantly associated with their age, knowledge of hospice care, level of empathy, and self-efficacy. Conclusion: The attitudes of front-line nurses toward hospice care need to be improved. Hospital departments should establish an effective public health emergency strategy, provide training to increase front-line nurses’ knowledge and practical experience of hospice care, cultivate nurses’ empathy, and enhance their sense of self-efficacy, in order to improve the quality of hospice care for patients and their families.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Attitudes of Front-Line Nurses Toward Hospice Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu

Gao

et al. 2020

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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“…An attitude towards death describes the various kinds of moods, psychological dispositions, and evaluations that individuals hold towards death, including their own death, as well as the death of others. This is termed the "moribund stage" (7). The score of natural acceptance was the highest among the nurse participants in the present study, which was consistent with the findings of the research conducted by Park et al (8).…”

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confidence: 92%

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

Zhang¹,

Tao²,

Mao³

et al. 2021

Ann Palliat Med

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Background: With China's ageing society, the number of deaths increased gradually. Clinical nursing staff are among the first to come into contact with dying patients and scientific attitudes towards death will affect not only the quality of hospice care but also the physical and mental health of the nursing staff. Subjective well-being (SWB) mainly points to the overall emotional and cognitive evaluation of life quality. However, few studies have examined the correlation between attitudes towards death and subjective well-being in nurses.Methods: A total of 810 nurses recruited from a tertiary hospital in Zhuhai were surveyed using the Chinese version of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised and the Subjective Well-being Scale. Pearson correlation coefficient was computed to analyze the correlation between attitudes towards death and the subjective well-being of the nursing staff.Results: Subjective well-being was correlated with attitudes towards death (P<0.05). Multivariate analysis found that serious illness/acute or chronic disease, night shifts, and initial education level among nurses were also factors significantly related to subjective well-being (P<0.05). Conclusions:The findings indicate a close correlation between nurses' attitudes towards death and their subjective well-being. Nursing managers should guide nursing staff to develop a more appropriate and healthier view of death so as to enhance their subjective well-being.

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“…In addition, the clinical departments often faced the powerlessness of dying patients; and the inability of the treatment of disease could produce emotional distress among nurses, which could lead to job burnout feelings [15]. The job burnout feelings among nurses could directly affect the quality of care and professional academic performance [40] and are resulted in low DCSS and demand, It also indicated that the positive attitude towards end-of-life care was positively correlated with the ability to solve the end-of-life-related problems [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

Analysis of The Status Quo and Influencing Factors of The Death Coping Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Lin

Liu

et al. 2021

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Background Nurses are the main caregivers to dying patients. It is inevitable to face or deal with death-related events. The ability of death-coping self-efficacy (DCS) is very important, which can reduce the risk of nursing staff, suffering from adverse emotional distress and help them to better participate in the end-of-life care of the patients and improve the quality of care. Methods Using the convenient sampling method, a total of 572 nurses were included in this study from a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou, China. The situation and influencing factors of the clinical nurses' DCS were explored using the General Information Questionnaires and DCSS. (DCS scale). Results The scores of each parameter, ranging from low to high, were as following: grief coping, death preparation, and hospice care. The influencing factors of nurses' DCS included the hospice care education courses received in the last year, the experience of accompanying the family members of the deceased, and the attitude towards death. Conclusions The overall self-efficacy of nurses in palliative care was at a medium level and the sense of their self-efficacy in coping with the grief and preparation for death needed to be strengthened. The nursing managers should pay attention to the education and training of palliative care, which will strengthen the psychological and spiritual caring abilities of the nurses for the patients and their families, increase their experience of end-of-life care, improve their cognition of palliative care, and help them in establishing a correct view of death, thereby leading to improve the quality of palliative care.

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Death Attitudes, Palliative Care Self-efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Among Hospice Nurses

Cited by 39 publications

References 28 publications

Attitudes of Front-Line Nurses Toward Hospice Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Attitudes of Front-Line Nurses Toward Hospice Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Analysis of The Status Quo and Influencing Factors of The Death Coping Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

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