Effectiveness of a Death-Education Program in Reducing Death Anxiety of Nursing Students

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629611
AutoresNoreen Johansson (Linfield College, Portland, Oregon, autor de correspondencia), Terry Lally (University of Portland, Portland, Oregon)
Año1991
Volumen22
Número1
Páginas25-33
Fecha de publicación1991-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/l5ek-rcg3-kdxd-w8uy
OpenAlexW2018465619
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas19

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a death education program in reducing death anxiety experienced by nursing students. Twenty-two junior and thirty-two senior baccalaureate nursing students in a private sectarian liberal arts college were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. All participants were pre- and posttested with the State Form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory following the viewing of a film depicting a death experience. Posttest analysis indicated that the death education program was effective in decreasing the death anxiety of some of the seniors, but it had an opposite effect on some of the juniors. This discrepancy in findings could result from the fact that seniors had prior supervised clinical experience with dying patients, and juniors did not have this experience

Anxiety · Death anxiety · Death education · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Psychiatry · Trait anxiety · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Nursing · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology