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Relationship between End-of-Life Care Stress, Death Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses in South Korea

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  • Jihee Choi

    (Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea)

  • Minkyung Gu

    (Department of Nursing, College of Science and Technology, Daejin University, Pocheon-si 11159, Korea)

  • Sunyoung Oh

    (Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea)

  • Sohyune Sok

    (Department of Nursing, College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea)

Abstract

In South Korea, the number of cancer patients continues to rise, indicating that nurses have greater access to end-of-life care in clinical settings. This study examined the relationship between the end-of-life care stress, death anxiety, and self-efficacy of clinical nurses in South Korea. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Participants were 124 nurses working in university hospitals. Data included the general characteristics of study participants, end-of-life care stress, death anxiety, and self-efficacy. Data were collected from February to March 2021. This study shows that the degrees of end-of-life care stress and death anxiety of clinical nurses in South Korea were higher than the median values. Married nurses had higher self-efficacy than unmarried, and there was a difference between bedside and administrative nurses’ self-efficacy. Nurses with no experience of end-of-life care nursing education had higher death anxiety than nurses with experience. The higher the end-of-life care stress of nurses, the higher the death anxiety. The study suggests that therapeutic and detailed educational programs to reduce end-of-life care stress and death anxiety of clinical nurses are needed, and experimental research to verify this. The results can contribute to countries as an additional and enriching reference.

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  • Jihee Choi & Minkyung Gu & Sunyoung Oh & Sohyune Sok, 2022. "Relationship between End-of-Life Care Stress, Death Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses in South Korea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(3), pages 1-9, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:3:p:1082-:d:728151
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