title: Factors influencing attitude toward care of dying patients in first-year nursing students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe Swedish first-year undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward care of dying patients. Possible influences such as age, earlier care experiences, care education, experiences of meeting dying patients and place of birth were investigated.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) was used in six universities. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some 371 students (67.3%) reported overall positive attitude toward caring for dying patients (total mean FATCOD 119.5, SD 10.6) early in their first semester. Older students, students with both earlier care experience and earlier education, those with experience of meeting a dying person, and students born in Sweden reported the highest scores, a more positive attitude.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Age, earlier care experience and education, experiences of meeting a dying person and place of birth seems to affect students' attitudes toward care of the dying and need to be considered among nursing educators.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.|Senior Lecturer, Stockholms Sjukhem Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.|Senior Lecturer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Carina Lundh
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Hagelin
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden.|Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor Institute of Caring Sciences and Health, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Melin-Johansson
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor Institute of Caring Sciences and Health, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.|Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Angered's Local Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ingela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Henoch
authors.affiliation: Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bergh
authors.affiliation: Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ek
authors.affiliation: Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hammarlund
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Care Sciences, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prahl
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor Institute of Caring Sciences and Health, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Susann
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strang
authors.affiliation: Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Westin
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Care Sciences, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Österlind
authors.affiliation: Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Browall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D064946:Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Death; End-of-life care; Nursing education; Nursing students; Questionnaire