The Effect of Emergency Nurses’ Psychological Resilience on Their Thanatophobic Behaviors: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Purpose This study analyzed the effect of emergency nurses’ psychological resilience on their thanatophobic behaviors. Methods The research was conducted with 156 emergency nurses. In the data collection process, the Socio-Demographic Information Form, the Brief Resilience Scale, and the Thanatophobia Scale were used. Results It was found that emergency nurses had medium-level psychological resilience and high-level thanatophobia. Besides, it was discerned that there was a moderate negative relationship between psychological resilience and thanatophobia (r:−.643, p: 0.000). Lastly, as per the simple linear regression analysis, it was identified that the predictor variable of psychological resilience accounted for 40.9% of the variance in the predicted variable of thanatophobia ( R2:.409, p: 0.000). Practice Implications Emergency nurses, who are faced with many negative situations, need to have a high level of psychological resilience in order to get out of the mental state brought by negative conditions as soon as possible, and it is recommended to carry out applications to increase psychological resilience.

Examination of the Relationship Between Thanatophobia and Resilience Levels of Nurses Working in Intensive Care and Palliative Care Units

“…The Thanatophobia Scale mean score of nurses was moderate at 31.74 ± 10.08 in this study. There have been studies in our country examining the thanatophobia levels of nurses and reported moderate to high levels [11,[20][21][22]. In a qualitative study by De Swardt and Fouche (2017), it was determined that nurses who gave post-mortem care to the deceased in the intensive care unit experienced thanatophobia by confronting the reality of their own death [23].…”

“…In our study, the nurses' Psychological Resilience Scale for Adults mean score was moderate at 108.34 ± 7.12. A study examining the effect of the psychological resilience of emergency nurses on their thanatophobic behaviours determined that nurses had moderate psychological resilience [22]. There are studies in the literature showing that nurses' psychological exibility is moderate [31,32].…”

“…Psychological resilience decreased as thanatophobia increased in our study (r=-.241, p = 0.00). Kartal et al, in their 2022 study, emphasized that there was a moderately negative relationship between resilience and thanatophobia and that 40.9% of psychological exibility was related to thanatophobia [22]. There are a limited number of studies examining the relationship between thanatophobia and psychological resilience in nurses.…”

“…The scale was developed by Friborg et al and was translated into Turkish and veri ed for validity and reliability by Basim and Çetin [18,19]. It contains 33 items and 5 subdimensions, which are 'structural style' (3,9,15,21), 'perception of future' (2,8,14,20), 'family coherence' (5,11,17,23,26,32), 'perception of self' (1,7,13,19,28,31), 'social competence' (4,10,16,22,25,29) and 'social resources' (6, 12,18,24,27,30,33). If increased scores are to indicate increased resilience, the answer boxes should be rated from 1 to 5 from left to right.…”

Resiliencia en Los Profesionales De Enfermería De Una Institución Sanitaria Privada De La Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires

“…Los resultados coinciden con los hallazgos del presente trabajo en el cual los profesionales del servicio de Internación conjunta (del área obstétrica) mostraron niveles más altos de resiliencia. Por otro lado, en una muestra de 321 enfermeros de servicios de emergencia, se identificó un nivel de bajo a moderado de resiliencia (18) y en otro trabajo que incluyó una muestra de 156 enfermeras de servicios de emergencia de Turquía el nivel de resiliencia fue moderado (22), contrastando el perfil altamente resiliente en los enfermeros del área de emergencia hallado en el presente estudio.…”