Emel GÃœLNAR
Kırıkkale University, Turkey
Title: The effect of Palliative Care Lesson towards the Students’ Attitudes of Death
Biography
Biography: Emel GÃœLNAR
Abstract
Introduction
Nurses have significant roles in the services given to the patients and families in palliative care. To build up a qualitifed nursing care for the palliative care patients, the lessons about palliative care should be integrated into the core of nursing education.
Aim
This research was conducted to explore the effects of palliative care lessons towards students’ attitudes of death.
Method
The scope of this descriptive study was consist of 50, 4th grade bachelory nursing students. Due to the availability of the whole scope, all the students were included into the sample. The datas were collected via demografic characteristics questionnaire and Death Attitude profileRevised/DAP-R. Death Attitıde profile-Revised (DAP-R) was developed by Wong T.P. and collegues (1994). The turkish version of the form was studied by Çevik (2010). The survey instrument used in this study was DAP-R. Results The 88% of the students were female, 66% were willing to provide care to the patients who are about to die, 34% met a death case and 90% aggreed with the idea of the patients who was about to die should be informed about their prognose. The mean score of the DAP-R was 4,29±0,47. The subdimensions were as in following: fear of death was 3,92±0,94, death avoidance was 3,29±1,02, neutral acceptance was 5,44±0,66, approach acceptance was 4,86±0,71 and escape acceptance was 3,55±1,13. The relationship between the experience of the students about meeting death or to serve to the patients about to die and the mean score of the death avoidance which is one of the subdimension were found statistically significant. (p<0.05).
Conclusion
The analysis confirmed that Palliative care lecture effects the students’ attitude towrads death. According to these results, to integrated palliative care lessons to the core of nursing education should be offered