title: Greek renal nurses' attitudes towards death.
abstract: This study aims to assess how Greek renal nurses feel about death and examine any relationships between their attitudes and demographic factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive quantitative study. The sample comprised of 49 nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Voluntary and anonymous completion of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised and a demographic questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  44 respondents were female and 5 were male with a mean age of 25.80 years. The mean nursing experience was 10.9 years. Nursing experience and age were the variables most likely to predict nurses' attitudes towards death. Nurses with specific education on palliative care had less difficulty talking about death and dying and did not have a fear of death. The Hospital-based teams (known as palliative care teams, supportive care teams or symptom assessment teams) had statistically significant different relationships with fear of death and neutral acceptance scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is recommended to include education on death and care of the dying in the nursing degree course in order for nurses who are giving terminal phase patient care to be better able deal with issues that death evolves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece. zygas@uop.gr
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zyga
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malliarou
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lavdaniti
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Athanasopoulou
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sarafis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000451:nursing*; D012944:Social Support