title: Effect of Terminal Patient Care Training on the Nurses' Attitudes Toward Death in an Oncology Hospital in Turkey.
abstract: This is an experimental research aiming at identifying the effect of terminal patient care training on the nurses' attitudes toward death. The sample of this study (n = 41) involves 20 nurses in the training group and 21 nurses in the control group. Nurses were offered terminal patient care training and their attitudes toward death were assessed before and after the intervention. The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) subscale mean scores for fear of death (3.9-4.6, p < .05) and approach acceptance (2.9-3.3, p < .05) were found to significantly increase at the end of training in the training group while mean scores in the control group displayed no significant change (p > .05) in any of the five DAP-R subscales. In accordance with these findings, this study suggests that terminal patient care training should be implemented in the nursing curriculum more extensively and should be frequently repeated as part of the nurses' in-service education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey. sgoris2013@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Songül
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Göriş
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sultan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taşcı
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, 38039, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Birgül
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Özkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Özlem
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Ceyhan
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Pınar Tekinsoy
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Kartın
authors.affiliation: Oncology Hospital, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Aliye
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Çeliksoy
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ferhan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Elmalı
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003479:Curriculum; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Cancer patients; Death attitude; Nursing; Terminally care