Relationship between End-of-Life Care Stress, Death Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses in South Korea

Jihee Choi, Minkyung Gu, Sunyoung Oh and Sohyune Sok
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Jihee Choi: Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea
Minkyung Gu: Department of Nursing, College of Science and Technology, Daejin University, Pocheon-si 11159, Korea
Sunyoung Oh: Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea
Sohyune Sok: Department of Nursing, College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: In South Korea, the number of cancer patients continues to rise, indicating that nurses have greater access to end-of-life care in clinical settings. This study examined the relationship between the end-of-life care stress, death anxiety, and self-efficacy of clinical nurses in South Korea. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Participants were 124 nurses working in university hospitals. Data included the general characteristics of study participants, end-of-life care stress, death anxiety, and self-efficacy. Data were collected from February to March 2021. This study shows that the degrees of end-of-life care stress and death anxiety of clinical nurses in South Korea were higher than the median values. Married nurses had higher self-efficacy than unmarried, and there was a difference between bedside and administrative nurses’ self-efficacy. Nurses with no experience of end-of-life care nursing education had higher death anxiety than nurses with experience. The higher the end-of-life care stress of nurses, the higher the death anxiety. The study suggests that therapeutic and detailed educational programs to reduce end-of-life care stress and death anxiety of clinical nurses are needed, and experimental research to verify this. The results can contribute to countries as an additional and enriching reference.

Keywords: end-of-life care; stress; death anxiety; self-efficacy; nurse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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