The effect of status and frequency of confronting death in emergency nurses on attitude towards death

Abstract

Perception and attitude towards death is influenced from various factors such as religion, culture, social value judgments, beliefs and traditions. People may develop negative or positive attitude towards death according to the experiences they live about death of individuals in their environment. In this study, mean score of Attitude to Death Scale was determined as 123, mean score of “Neutral Acceptance and Approach Acceptance” among sub-dimensions of scale is 68, mean score of sub-dimension of “Escape Acceptance” is 20.235.98, mean score of sub-dimension of “Fear and Avoidance of Death” is 35.9810.06. It was determined that score of Attitude to Death Scale does not differ according to socio-demographic or occupational characteristics such as age, education, marital status, receiving education during or after occupational education yet; mean score of nurses who have experienced the loss of a close relative recently was higher than those who have not. © 2017 OMU.