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Effectiveness of a Four-Stage Death Education Model Based on Constructivist Learning Theory for Trainee Nursing Students

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Objective: To explore the effectiveness of the four-step death education model based on constructivist learning theory in enhancing the death coping abilities and attitudes of trainee nurses and improving course satisfaction. Methods: Sixty-six trainee nurses from a tumour hospital in Shanxi Province were selected as the study subjects, and a class-experimental research design was adopted, in which the nursing students before the course implementation were taken as the control group and those after the course implementation were taken as the experimental group. Death Attitude Profile Revised Scale (DAP) was used to measure the cognitive attitude of nursing students towards death, and a self-made questionnaire was used to test the satisfaction of nursing students with the curriculum design. Paired sample t test was used to compare the participants before and after the study. Results: Post-course death avoidance score, fear of death score, and escape-orientated death acceptance score of the trainee nurses (all P < 0.05) were higher than the control group. Neutral death acceptance score ( P < 0.05) was lower amongst the trainee nurses than the control group after the course. It showed that the attitudes towards death of the trainee nurses before and after the course improved in terms of fear and anxiety, sense of avoidance, and neutral acceptance. In the evaluation of the content of the course, the teaching methods of the course, and the teaching results, most of the trainee nurses gave a better evaluation. Conclusion: The four-step death education model based on constructivist learning theory significantly improved the death coping skills and attitudes of trainee nursing students. Although this educational model is still limited, it provides research materials for the future establishment of a systematic death education. Keywords: constructivist learning theory, death education, placement, nursing students

Source: Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare

DOI: 10.2147/jmdh.s500169

Authors: Yujing Yang, Yue Li, Jia Fu, Dan Guo, Jingjing Xue

Institutions: Shanxi University of Medicine, Shanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (China), China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

Language: English

Topic: Palliative and Oncologic Care

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,836