Attitudes of health science students towards death in Spain

Autor:	Sagrario Pérez de la Cruz
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Advanced and Specialized Nursing Medical education Attitude to Death Cross-Sectional Studies Attitude of Health Personnel Spain Health Personnel Surveys and Questionnaires Health science Humans Sample (statistics) Psychology
Zdroj:	International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 27:402-409
ISSN:	2052-286X 1357-6321
DOI:	10.12968/ijpn.2021.27.8.402
Popis:	Background:Health science students in Spain should be trained to manage the process of death and dying.Aim:To compare the perceptions, attitudes and fears of death from a sample of these students.Methods:This descriptive, cross-sectional and multi-centre study comprised 411 students studying degrees in medicine, nursing and physiotherapy. The variables used were the hospice-related death self-efficacy scale by Robbins and the Collet-Lester fear of death scale.Findings:The total score obtained on the death self-efficacy scale was 74.43/110, which is considered moderate to high self-efficacy for facing death. Facing the death of a friend at a young age obtained the lowest score (3.85±2.809). Regarding the Collet-Lester scale, the lowest score was ‘fear of one's own death’ (3.58±0.983) with a value of p=0.81.Conclusion:The health science students who participated in this study displayed high levels of fear and anxiety towards death.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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