Abstract
Objectives This study aimed to develop positive attitudes toward end-of-life care among nursing students to enhance the qualities necessary for future nursing careers, and to provide a basis for developing end-of-life care interventions for nursing students by identifying the effects of good death awareness, empathy, and end-of-life care self-efficacy of end-of-life care attitudes. Methods It was targeted to 130 nursing students in G city, and the general characteristics and variables were descriptive statistics, the end-of-life care attitude according to general characteristics was Independent T-Test, ANOVA, variable correlation was Pearson's Correlation Coefficients, their the impact factor on the end-of-life care attitude was analyzed using multiple regression analysis. Results The results of the study showed that there were significant positive correlations with nursing students' good death awareness (r=.38, p<.001), empathy (r=.50, p<.001), end-of-life care self-efficacy (r=.53, p<.001) and end-of-life care attitude. The factors that affect the of end-of-life care attitude were due to self-efficacy of end-of-life care and good death awareness. Their total explanation was 29.9%. Conclusions It is necessary to develop and apply various end-of-life care education programs to increase self-efficacy of end-of-life care and good death awareness, which are the influencing factors of this study, to improve end-of-life care attitudes of nursing students.
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