Attitudes to death of nurses in Turkey and factors affecting them
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2018
Yazarlar: Hanife Ozcelik, Fatma Aksoy, Esra Sonmez, Cicek Fadiloglu
Hospice and Palliative Medicine International Journal, Uluslararası, 2018, cilt 2
DOI: 10.15406/hpmij.2018.02.00112
Özet
Background: The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of nurses in Turkey to death, and the factors affecting this.Methods: The research was conducted with 390 nurses working in various departments of a university medical faculty hospital.A demographic questionnaire was given to the nurses to determine socio-demographic characteristics, and the DAP-R was used.Results: A majority of the nurses in our study (86.2%) believed terminal stage health care in Turkey to be inadequate; 46.7% thought that they themselves were partially inadequate with regard to terminal stage patient care, and a majority (76.4%) wanted to have psychosocial training in final stage patient care.The nurses' mean scores on the DAP-R were as follows: fear of death 4.7±1.18,avoidance of death 3.92±1.28,neutral acceptance of death 5.22±0.88,approach-oriented acceptance of death 4.69±0.94,and escape-oriented acceptance of death 3.59±1.16.Among the factors affecting attitudes to death, a positive correlation was found between age and escape acceptance of death (p=0.001r:0.168) and a statistically significant relationship was found between marital status and fear of death, between education (professional experience) and escape acceptance and neutral acceptance of death, and between place of work and neutral and approach acceptance of death (p<0.05).Conclusion: It was found that nurses sometimes saw death as an unavoidable reality.However, it was concluded that this attitude was not reflected in daily life, that death is turned into a complete crisis, and that we still treat death as a taboo subject.