Nurses’ attitudes to death: changes with the COVID-19 pandemic
Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes to death in the hospital setting before and after the first critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative study. Data collection was conducted in a hospital in Portugal, using the Death Attitude Profile Assessment...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/66598 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/66598 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Attitude to Death Death Nursing Pandemics Hospitals Atitude Frente a Morte Morte Enfermagem Pandemias Hospitais |
| Sumario: | Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes to death in the hospital setting before and after the first critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative study. Data collection was conducted in a hospital in Portugal, using the Death Attitude Profile Assessment Scale. In 2018, 900 nurses participated and, in 2020, 995. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed. Results: regarding the profile of participants in the two groups, significant differences in age (p=0.001) and professional category (p=0.008) were identified. In attitudes to death, Avoidance had a significant difference between nurses before and during the pandemic (p=0.014), and was higher in the latter moment. Conclusion: the fact that Avoidance is more recurrent after the pandemic shows the importance of preparing the teams to face death in order to ensure the quality of end-of-life care and minimize nurses’ psychological suffering. |
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