Attitudes toward caring for terminally ill patients among community nurses in Shanghai: A cross-sectional study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate attitudes toward caring for terminally ill patients and identify the associated factors among community nurses in Shanghai. Methods: -test, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple linear regression analysis. Results: A total of 1,396 community nurses participated in this study. The overall FATCOD-B score among community nurses was 102.27 ± 10.23, the attitude toward caring for the dying person's family dimension scored the highest (4.03 ± 0.53), whereas the attitude toward the communication dimension scored the lowest (2.86 ± 0.52). The overall CDS score was 130.78 ± 20.25. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that death coping ability and blended death education accounted for 13.7 % of the variance in community nurses' attitudes toward caring for terminally ill patients. Conclusions: Community nurses in Shanghai exhibit moderate attitudes toward caring for terminally ill patients. Nurses with greater death coping ability and those who participated in blended death education tended to have more positive attitudes toward terminally ill patients. These findings underscore the potential of blended death education as a practical strategy to enhance hospice care quality in community health service centers.
Authors: Yifei Xie, Tingting Cai, Aiyong Zhu, Xian Zhang, Chunjian Xu, Lijuan Song
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G3859344375, G6729171605
OpenAlex ID: W4411275760