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ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH: A COMPARISON OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS AND GRADUATE NURSES

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
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.
Title: ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH: A COMPARISON OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS AND GRADUATE NURSES.
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Name(s): CAMPBELL, JUDY BANKS, author
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Kite, Robert H., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, FL
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 189 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: 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.
Identifier: 11663 (digitool), FADT11663 (IID), fau:8599 (fedora)
Degree granted: Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Education
Subject(s): Nurses--Attitudes
Nursing students--Attitudes
Death--Psychological aspects
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