• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.271-279
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• 2018

This study attempted to identify and the relationship between death consciousness and awareness of good death of nursing students who have experienced clinical practice. The data collection was conducted for a total of 205 students from June 1 to June 15, 2018, who are 111 students in third grade and 94 students in fourth grade at S City of C university. Death consciousness and awareness of good death were both normal. Death consciousness according to general characteristics was the experience of thought about death(t=.559, p=.002), and awareness of good death was death education(t=.777, p=.018) and statistically significant difference in understanding death(F=2.964, p=.033). There was a positive correlation between grade and awareness of good death(r=.161, p=.021), but there was no correlation between death consciousness and awareness of good death(r=-.71, p=.311). As a result of this study, it was able to understand the death consciousness and awareness of good death, the importance of death thought and death education of nursing college students who experienced clinical practice, and the needed to repeated research for nursing education and relationship confirmation to improve the death consciousness and awareness of good death.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.122-133
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• 2014

Purpose: We conducted a descriptive correlational study to determine a relationship between nurses' awareness of good death and attitudes toward terminal care, which in turn could be used as basic data for improvement of the quality of terminal care at geriatric hospitals. Methods: From April 3, 2013 through April 22, 2013, data were collected from 230 nurses working at geriatric hospitals. Results: Nurses' attitudes toward terminal care showed no significant correlation with awareness of good death, but it was positively correlated with a sense of closeness, a subfactor of awareness of good death. There was negative correlation between emotions regarding a deathbed, a subfactor of attitudes of nurses in charge of terminal patients, and awareness of good death. We found positive correlation between terminal care performance and awareness of good death. Conclusion: This study warrants the need for nursing education catered to characteristics of geriatric hospitals and development of diverse intervention strategies to help them to attain a positive attitude toward death by familiarizing themselves with the concept of good death and enhancing job satisfaction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.283-299
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• 2013

This study has been performed to identify meanings of good deaths among 350 old people aged 65 from September, 2010 until February, 2011. In this study, the subjects were asked about good meanings of death based on qualitative study of free format, and their statements were categorized into similar content areas. The results show that first, the subjects felt that the good death is a dignity death not weighing burdens to others, memorized as a good life, until th end of my life, a death receiving at home, comfortable death, a death like a sleep, with out pain, not long, a prepared process, a death after doing my best, receiving after doing my best, death after offering benevolence to others, within my beliefs, and finally a good death is after seeing good life of my descendent. These 16 free answers were also categorized into 6 meaningful areas such as considering others, at my home, comfortable scene, prepared, and death after living my wanted time.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.58-66
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of perception of good death and hospice, and attitude of dying care, to examine relationships among them, and then to investigate predictors affecting of attitude of dying care in nursing students. The participants were 229 nursing students in D city who were surveyed in May to June 2019 using self-report questionnaires. Perception of good death and hospice, and attitude of dying care were related positively among variables. In the multiple regression analysis, perception of good death, and perception of hospice were influential factors significantly associated with the attitude of dying care. Those factors explained 39.3% of the attitude of dying care in nursing students. The most important factor was perception of hospice. In order to encourage and improve positive perception of death and attitude of dying care in nursing students, nursing educators should consider building up and reinforcing the curriculum of nursing college.

• 한국노년학
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.305-323
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• 2019

In recognition of the increasing social attention paid to the notion of how to die well, this study explored what it is that middle-aged and older Koreans think of as "dying well." Specifically, it was aimed at classifying the perceptions people middle-aged and older have regarding dying well. To this end, we used data from the National Survey on Well-Dying, which was conducted in 2018 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, and employed Latent Class Analysis. The demographic characteristics of each of the classified subgroups were identified through technical statistics. The types identified were multilayered depending on the imminence of death, perspectives of the last stages before dying, and the meaning of death in the context of social relationships. These types differed according to gender and subjective health conditions. Based on our findings in this study, we put forward policy suggestions about awareness improvement of personal and social levels, promoting on comprehensive death preparation, providing a system to reduce the cost of medical and nursing expense at the end of one's life, promoting of the right to self-determination regarding death, raising social attention to groups that are least prepared for dying well.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.624-638
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to determine the perception of good death, knowledge and perception hospice palliative care among the nursing graduates. The subjects of this study were 241 nursing students in 4th grade in 8 universities nationwide. The results showed that the perception of good death was positively correlated with perception of hospice palliative care and knowledge of hospice palliative care with perception of hospice palliative care. The perception of good death was 3.28 points. Knowledge of hospice palliative care was 9.24 points. Perception of hospice palliative care was 4.07 points. Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to improve the curriculum to improve knowledge and perception of good death and hospice palliative care, and to develop various teaching methods and programs such as role play, simulation, and discussion.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.688-698
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of perception of good death and knowledge toward advance directive on attitude toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment among university hospital nurses. The subjects of this study were 207 university hospital nurses. Data were analyzed using the SPSS Statistics 24.0 version. The results showed that factors influencing attitude toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment were perception of good death (𝛽=-.32, p<.001), education experience for good death (𝛽=.15, p=.024), and knowledge toward advance directive (𝛽=.14, p=.036). They explained 14.2% of attitude toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. Based on the results of this study, it suggests the development of education programs for good death and life-sustaining treatment to improve the perception of good death, knowledge toward advance directive of university hospital nurses.

• Journal of Advanced Technology Convergence
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.23-30
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• 2023

This study is a descriptive research study conducted to find out the level of perception of the good death among nursing students and compare sub-factors among the perceptions of a good death. As for the research method, 102 people who explained the purpose of the study and agreed to participate were conveniently recruited. As a research tool, 'Measure of concept of a Good Death' by Schwartz et al. (2003) was translated by Lee (2017), and the research was conducted through online. For data analysis, statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, t-test, and one-way ANOVA of the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 program were used. Factors showing average differences in scores for each of the three sub-factors of good death awareness were derived from the experience of clinical practice. The mean of good death (3.13±0.36 points) of nursing students who experienced clinical practice was statistically significantly higher than that of students without clinical practice experience (2.90±0.31 points) (t=3.156, p=.002). In particular, the mean of good death for 'closure' was statistically significantly higher for those with experience in clinical practice (3.46±0.39 points) than those without experience (3.16±0.37 points) (t=3.476, p=.001). Through this study, it was confirmed that nursing students' perception of a good death differed depending on whether or not they were in clinical practice. The results of this study are expected to provide basic data for the establishment of effective educational strategies for the perception of good death in nursing students.

• 한국노년학
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.613-633
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• 2019

The purpose of this research is to analyze the subjective perception pattern of Good Death of the Elderly by using Q-methodology. The researcher conducted individual in-depth interviews of 9 people, 4 times FGI and literature reviews to collect self-reflective statements about good death and dying. The interviewees were death-related workers, people who had experience with death of their spouse or parents, experts and the elderly through individual or group interviews. Thirty-four Q-samples were extracted from the Q-population and P-samples of thirty people male and female 15 each from sixties to eighties participated in Q-sorting. Data analysed using by QUANL program and found that three factor structures were appropriate accounted for 54.64% of the total variance. Perception pattern on Good Death was analysed into 3 types; Death without fear(type 1), Burdenless death(type 2), Long-lived-death(type 3). According to these results, the researcher discussed theoretically and suggested some significant implications.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.226-235
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• 2020

This study aimed to identify the integral factors influencing the attitudes of nursing students toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments. Methods: 139 nursing students were selected from the school of nursing of a single university. Questionnaires were used as measurement tools to measure their good death recognition, attitude towards death & towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The degree of good death recognition, attitude towards death & towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Correlation between variables was analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and factors influencing the attitude towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment using multiple linear regression. Results: Attitude towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment was significantly positively correlated with good death recognition(r=.312, p=.000). As a result of multiple linear regression, good death recognition significantly influenced (β=.312, p=.000), accounting for 8.5% of the variance in attitude towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. Conclusions: The results from this study can be contribute to develop educational programs to foster positive attitudes towards withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.