• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.215-222
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of education for welldying on the death anxiety and death reception of care workers who were most closely linked to death among workers who were engaged in senior welfare. It's basically meant to let care workers have a good understanding of death, death process and death-related factors to help elderly people close their life in a comfortable manner. The subjects in this study were the care workers who worked in J nursing home in the region of Gwangju. They received education in nine sessions, once a week, and the collected data were analyzed by the statistical package 15.0. The statistical analysis methods used in this study were reliability analysis, descriptive statistics analysis, t-test and ANOVA. The findings of the study were as follows: First, the welldying program participants showed a decrease in death anxiety. Second, the welldying program participants became more receptive to death.