2016 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 40-48
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of a lecture, for nursing students, concerned with end of life care for a patient at home. It focused on views of life and death along with attitudes toward caring for the dying.
Method: The subjects included in this investigation were 97 second year nursing students. Before the lecture, the students were all given two sets of questionnaires; Death Attitude Inventory（DAI）and Frommelt Attitude Toward Care Of Dying scale Form B-J（FATCOD-Form B-J）. These were returned unsigned and the results were used for scaling views of life and death along with the students’ attitudes toward the care of the dying.
Result: The number of object-oriented analysis was 67. Scores of DAI’s subscale relating to “fear and anxiety of death” reduced significantly（p＜0.001）. Scores of FATCOD-Form B-J increased significantly（p<0.001, p＝0.029）.
Conclusion: There is a possibility that the lecture reduced students’ fear and anxiety regarding death, and made their attitude toward care of the dying more positive. The questionnaire survey also provided students with the opportunity to think about life and death.
