Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
This study analyzes the impact of a selected associate degree
nursing program upon the attitudes of students toward death. An
instrument, "Attitudes Towards Death," was developed for use in the
study and was administered to a randomly selected sample of 122 freshmen,
84 sophomore and 46 graduate nurses. Analysis of each group's
responses and comparisons among the group were made using several
statistical procedures. The results were as follows:
1. There were no significant differences in attitudes towards
death of beginning freshman associate degree nursing students, graduating
sophomore associate degree nursing students, and graduate associate
degree nurses working in nursing.
2. There were no significant differences between freshman and
sophomore nursing students in the following subscales: fear of death
of self, fear of death of others, fear of dying of others, general
attitude, and inconsistency of attitude. There was a significant difference on the fear of dying of self.
3. There were no significant differences between freshman
nursing students and graduate nurses on any of the six death attitude
subscales.
4. There were no significant differences between sophomore
nursing students and graduate nurses on any of the six death attitude
subscales. 5. Among the demographic variables the following chi-square
subscale correlations were significant: personal meaning that the
subject attached to the concept of death, and the fear of death of
self, fear of dying of self, general attitude, and inconsistency of
attitude; degree of religiosity and fear of death of self, fear of
dying of others, general attitude, and inconsistency of attitude;
desire to be told of a terminal illness and fear of death of self,
fear of dying of self, and fear of dying of others; amount of nursing
experience and inconsistency of attitude; marital status and fear of
death of others, and area of clinical specialization and fear of death
of others. The variables of age , income, and first personal involvement
with death had no significant chi-square subscale correlations.
nursing program upon the attitudes of students toward death. An
instrument, "Attitudes Towards Death," was developed for use in the
study and was administered to a randomly selected sample of 122 freshmen,
84 sophomore and 46 graduate nurses. Analysis of each group's
responses and comparisons among the group were made using several
statistical procedures. The results were as follows:
1. There were no significant differences in attitudes towards
death of beginning freshman associate degree nursing students, graduating
sophomore associate degree nursing students, and graduate associate
degree nurses working in nursing.
2. There were no significant differences between freshman and
sophomore nursing students in the following subscales: fear of death
of self, fear of death of others, fear of dying of others, general
attitude, and inconsistency of attitude. There was a significant difference on the fear of dying of self.
3. There were no significant differences between freshman
nursing students and graduate nurses on any of the six death attitude
subscales.
4. There were no significant differences between sophomore
nursing students and graduate nurses on any of the six death attitude
subscales. 5. Among the demographic variables the following chi-square
subscale correlations were significant: personal meaning that the
subject attached to the concept of death, and the fear of death of
self, fear of dying of self, general attitude, and inconsistency of
attitude; degree of religiosity and fear of death of self, fear of
dying of others, general attitude, and inconsistency of attitude;
desire to be told of a terminal illness and fear of death of self,
fear of dying of self, and fear of dying of others; amount of nursing
experience and inconsistency of attitude; marital status and fear of
death of others, and area of clinical specialization and fear of death
of others. The variables of age , income, and first personal involvement
with death had no significant chi-square subscale correlations.
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