Effect of Death Education Program for University Students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to develop a death education program and evaluate the effectiveness of the program on the attitudes toward death, suicidal ideation and meaning in life among university students. The participants were 24 students, 11 in the experimental group and 13 in the control group. The death education program was developed and practiced with the experimental group for 8 sessions. The death education program reduced the negative attitude significantly toward death, and increased the meaning in life significantly in the experimental group. Suicidal ideation was also decreased but it was not statistically significant. There were significant differences in attitude toward death and meaning in life between the experimental and control group but not in suicidal ideation.

Development of death education training content for adult cancer patients: A mixed methods study

“…Proper death education benefits both patients and families. It is necessary to better understand death and accept and prepare for it with a mature attitude (Hyun, ). However, the absence of a reliable instrument to measure the full array of death education‐related content has greatly hampered further development in this area.…”

Health Education as a Means of Addressing Death in the Elderly

“…Education is an instrument that can be used for the development of healthy and active ageing, which is why, more specifically, health education for older people is closely linked to well-being and the improvement of quality of life, to address situations that may generate emotional or physical discomfort, such as the issue of death [5]. It is therefore essential to provide training for elderly people, aimed at demystifying the fear of death and making it no longer a taboo subject in our Western system [6]. To be able to offer actions of an educational-palliative nature, it is essential to design training processes that, in accordance with the dimensions of the human being and their need for care, give rise to a comprehensive education that makes it possible for the person to build their own life project [7].…”

Factors Influencing Respect for Life and Will of Korean Nursing Students

“…The attitude of an individual towards accepting death differs according to the meaning of death for the individual. One of the important roles of a nurse is to help the patient to seek and accept the meaning of death actively rather than to die with anxiety and fear [5]. If the nurse does not understand the meaning of death and is anxious about death, the meaningfulness of respecting life reduces [6].…”

“…Until now, no studies have investigated the factors affecting respect for life and will in nursing college students. Most of the existing studies have a single-variable level of influence on death and bioethical awareness [5,10,11], or the difference in perception or attitude toward death and bioethics of health students and non-health students [1]. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effects of meaning of death, death anxiety, and death concern on nursing students' respect for life and will, and to utilize them as basic data to develop and operate an effective bioethics education program for nursing students.…”