Assessment of knowledge and attitudes of nursing students for palliative care

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Οργάνωση & Διαχείριση ανακουφιστικής & υποστηρικτικής φροντίδας χρονίως πασχόντων
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2017-04-19
Year:
2017
Author:
Dimoula Maria
Supervisors info:
Πατηράκη Ελισάβετ, Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Λεμονίδου Χρυσούλα, Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Κατσαραγάκης Στυλιανός, Λέκτορας, Νοσηλευτικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Original Title:
Αξιολόγηση γνώσεων και στάσεων φοιτητών Νοσηλευτικής για την ανακουφιστική φροντίδα
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Assessment of knowledge and attitudes of nursing students for palliative care
Summary:
Introduction: Effective management needs of patients with chronic illnesses and their families requires of nurses appropriate knowledge, skills and beliefs which will start from the basic education.
Purpose: Investigate the knowledge and attitudes of nursing students for Palliative Care (PC) and the relationship between demographic characteristics and previous personal experience to affect them.
Sample: 90 students of 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the Athens University Nursing Department.
Method: The PCQN questionnaire was used to measure the knowledge and FATCOD for measuring attitudes.
Results: The total mean score for knowledge in PC was 8,32/20 and for the attitude to take care of patients at the end of life 112/150. The 4th year students had more knowledge and more positive attitude towards 2nd and 3rd year students. The students of the second year was 23.5 points lower rating that is less knowledge than the 4th year.The attending seminars or lectures on the PC and experience with patient died during clinical practice associated with increased knowledge. Women and married showed a positive attitude to take care of patients at the end of life. Those who reported that they were taught to care for dying patients as part of the curriculum seemed to have more knowledge on PC and positive attitude towards caring for dying patients. Finally as more knowledge on the PC had students were more positive their attitude to patient care at the end of their lives.

Conclusions: The fact that 4th year students had more knowledge on PC and positive attitude towards people who die from 3rd and 2nd year students possibly related to teaching the course PC. But needs further study in larger sample, and search other factors that will likely increase the level of knowledge assessed as inadequate and improve posture.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Knowledge, Attitudes, Palliative care, Nursing students
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
65
Number of pages:
79
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