Carina Lundh Hagelin1,2,3, Christina Melin-Johansson4,5, Ingela Henoch5,6, Ingrid Bergh7, Kristina Ek7, Kina Hammarlund7, Charlotte Prahl8, Susann Strang5, Lars Westin7, Jane Österlind8, Maria Browall7. 1. Senior Lecturer, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden. 2. Senior Lecturer, Stockholms Sjukhem Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. 3. Senior Lecturer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4. Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden. 5. Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor Institute of Caring Sciences and Health, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 6. Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Angered's Local Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. 7. Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Sweden. 8. Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Care Sciences, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract
AIM: To describe Swedish first-year undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward care of dying patients. Possible influences such as age, earlier care experiences, care education, experiences of meeting dying patients and place of birth were investigated. METHOD: The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) was used in six universities. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used. RESULTS: Some 371 students (67.3%) reported overall positive attitude toward caring for dying patients (total mean FATCOD 119.5, SD 10.6) early in their first semester. Older students, students with both earlier care experience and earlier education, those with experience of meeting a dying person, and students born in Sweden reported the highest scores, a more positive attitude. CONCLUSION: Age, earlier care experience and education, experiences of meeting a dying person and place of birth seems to affect students' attitudes toward care of the dying and need to be considered among nursing educators.
AIM: To describe Swedish first-year undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward care of dying patients. Possible influences such as age, earlier care experiences, care education, experiences of meeting dying patients and place of birth were investigated. METHOD: The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) was used in six universities. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used. RESULTS: Some 371 students (67.3%) reported overall positive attitude toward caring for dying patients (total mean FATCOD 119.5, SD 10.6) early in their first semester. Older students, students with both earlier care experience and earlier education, those with experience of meeting a dying person, and students born in Sweden reported the highest scores, a more positive attitude. CONCLUSION: Age, earlier care experience and education, experiences of meeting a dying person and place of birth seems to affect students' attitudes toward care of the dying and need to be considered among nursing educators.