title: Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Death anxiety is a known phenomenon in older people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) hospitalised for end-of-life (EOL) care . Little is known about how nurses assuage death anxiety in this population.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate strategies used by nurses to assuage death anxiety and facilitate a good death in older CALD Australians hospitalised for EOL care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Advanced as a qualitative descriptive inquiry, a purposeful sample of 22 nurses was recruited from four Victorian healthcare services. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis processes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses used three key strategies: recognising death anxiety; delineating its dimensions; and initiating conventional nursingcaring behaviours to help contain it. Contrary to expectations, cultural similarities rather than differences were found in the strategies used.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nursing strategies for recognising, delineating, and managing death anxiety in older CALD people hospitalised at the EOL is an important component of quality EOL care.
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Deakin University , 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong , Victoria , Australia.
authors.forename: Megan-Jane
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Johnstone
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Deakin University , 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong , Victoria , Australia.
authors.forename: Alison M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Deakin University , 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong , Victoria , Australia.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rawson
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Deakin University , 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong , Victoria , Australia.
authors.forename: Bernice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Redley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D014739:Victoria
keywords: Australia; aged; anxiety; death; hospitalisation; immigrants; nurses; terminal care