Influencing factors of nurses' short-term bereavement reactions after patient death

Chuqian Chen1, Amy Yin Man Chow2

  • 1Department of Medical Humanities, School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Death Studies
|July 18, 2023
PubMed

An online cross-sectional survey was performed among 181 nurses in mainland China who experienced their most recent patient death within the last month. Multivariate linear regressions were used following bivariate analysis to identify influencing factors for their short-term professional bereavement reactions. More intensive reactions were associated with the nurse's fewer experiences of patient death; the nurse's employment in the intensive care unit rather than the emergency, oncology, geriatrics, or internal medicine departments; and the patient experiencing more pain in the last few days. Higher reaction scores were also reported by nurses who lost the patient more than 1 week prior.

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