title: The Difficulty of Selecting the NANDA-I Nursing Diagnosis (2015-2017) of "Death Anxiety" in Japan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of our study was to clarify any difficulties or problems that exist in Japanese healthcare sites regarding the selection of death anxiety as a nursing diagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was a qualitative, inductive research design. The semistructured interviews were conducted on the participants who were nurses and had 3 or more years of clinical experience in Japan.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed four categories: "The Japanese have a culture of avoiding death," "It is extremely difficult to match diagnostic indicators and related factors with specific patient cases," "Other diagnoses exist that are effective and enable proactive intervention," and "The definition of death anxiety and the meaning of its diagnostic indicators are unintelligible."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is thought that nursing diagnoses that reflect specific cultural backgrounds require definitions appropriate to each country and appropriate revisions to diagnostic indicators.
authors.affiliation: Kansai University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: Kimiyo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimomai
authors.affiliation: Kansai University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidetoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Furukawa
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Nursing, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing/Graduate School of Nursing, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Mitsumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.affiliation: Clinical Nurse, Todachuo General Hospital, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koizumi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death / Q000208:ethnology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D000072917:Standardized Nursing Terminology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Death anxiety; Japan; NANDA-I nursing diagnosis