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Nurses’ attitudes to death: changes with the COVID-19 pandemic
| Resumo: | Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes to death in the hospital setting before and after the first critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative study. Data collection was conducted in a hospital in Portugal, using the Death Attitude Profile Assessment Scale. In 2018, 900 nurses participated and, in 2020, 995. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed. Results: regarding the profile of participants in the two groups, significant differences in age (p=0.001) and professional category (p=0.008) were identified. In attitudes to death, Avoidance had a significant difference between nurses before and during the pandemic (p=0.014), and was higher in the latter moment. Conclusion: the fact that Avoidance is more recurrent after the pandemic shows the importance of preparing the teams to face death in order to ensure the quality of end-of-life care and minimize nurses’ psychological suffering. |
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| Autores principais: | Cardoso, Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira |
| Outros Autores: | Martins, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva; Ribeiro, Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes; Trindade, Letícia de Lima; Fonseca, Esmeralda Faria |
| Assunto: | Attitude to Death Death Nursing Pandemics Hospitals Atitude Frente a Morte Morte Enfermagem Pandemias Hospitais |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | IBICT |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Oasisbr |
| Resumo: | Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes to death in the hospital setting before and after the first critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative study. Data collection was conducted in a hospital in Portugal, using the Death Attitude Profile Assessment Scale. In 2018, 900 nurses participated and, in 2020, 995. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed. Results: regarding the profile of participants in the two groups, significant differences in age (p=0.001) and professional category (p=0.008) were identified. In attitudes to death, Avoidance had a significant difference between nurses before and during the pandemic (p=0.014), and was higher in the latter moment. Conclusion: the fact that Avoidance is more recurrent after the pandemic shows the importance of preparing the teams to face death in order to ensure the quality of end-of-life care and minimize nurses’ psychological suffering. |
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