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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.5.169

Effects of Death Preparation Education on Nursing Students' Perceptions about the Meaning of Life, Death and Well-dying and Hospice  

Byeon, Do-Hwa (Department of Nursing, Catholic Sangji College)
Park, Mi-Hyeon (Department of Nursing, Pohang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.5, 2017 , pp. 169-176 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study, a non-equal prior and post quasi-experimental research on a control group, investigates the nursing students' change of perception on the meaning of life, death, well-dying and hospice in order to elucidate its effect. The study subjects were 38 students registered in the Department of Nursing Science in C University located in A city as the experimental group and another 36 students registered in the Department of Nursing Science in P University in P city as the control group. Death preparation education was conducted from February 29 through April 20, 2016. A 90-minute session was conducted each week for eight weeks and the data were analyzed by $x^2-test$ and t-test. In line with four domains of death education, i.e., cognition, emotion, practice and value, death preparation education was composed by imparting meaning to life and focusing on the perception on death, well-dying and hospice. From the study results, death preparation education enhanced nursing students' perception on the meaning of life, well-dying and hospice, and hence helped nursing students grant meaning to their lives and establish right values of life. Thus, it acted as a driving force for nursing students to live positive lives and is expected to be utilized as useful education which cultivates right perception on well-dying and hospice. However, in the absence of any significant difference in perception of death, repeated follow-up studies are required to verify the effect on the perception on death and the change in the perception of well-dying depending on the period of application.
Keywords
Death; Hospice Care; Life; Nursing; Perception; Students;
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