Abstract
Objective To understand the attitude toward hospice care and its influencing factors among undergraduate nursing students majoring in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) , and to provide basis for nursing educators to formulate hospice care training strategies. Methods Using convenient sampling method, a total of 827 undergraduate nursing students from 3 TCM universities in Shandong, Shanxi and He'nan provinces were selected as subjects from September to October 2018. The general information questionnaire and the Chinese version of Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) were used. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze influencing factors. Results The total score of FATCOD among the 827 undergraduate TCM nursing students was (101.32±9.15) . Univariate linear regression results showed that gender, single-child status, willingness to choose nursing major, attitudes toward nursing, the situation where students discussed death with family, experience with funerals, experience with terminal relatives, willingness to take care terminal patients were all factors that could affect the attitudes toward hospice care among nursing students (t/F=-3.066, -2.783, 3.289, 12.577, 10.638, 2.680, -2.251, 8.697; P<0.05) . Multiple linear regression analysis results showed that gender, single-child status, attitudes toward nursing, willingness to take care terminal patients, experience with funerals, the situation where students discussed death with family, experience with terminal relatives have an impact on the attitude toward hospice care (P<0.05) . Conclusions The attitude toward hospice care among undergraduate TCM nursing students needs to be further improved. Educators should adopt various methods of teaching to carry out death education according to the influencing factors, and to cultivate proper perception of death and improve the enthusiasm for hospice care. Key words: Students, nursing; Attitude; Death; Hospice care; Influencing factors
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