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The spiritual support perceptions and attitudes towards death among intensive care nurses in Turkiye
Turkan Karaca1, Suzan Havlioğlu2
1Faculty of Health Sciences, Harran University, Nursing Harran University-Osmanbey Campus Haliliye, Şanlıurfa, Turkey. turkankaraca@harran.edu.tr.
Aims:
This study was conducted to determine the perceptions of spiritual support and attitudes towards death among intensive care nurses, who are among the health care professionals who frequently encounter death.
Methods:
The study was conducted with nurses working in the intensive care units of a university hospital. No sampling method was used in the study and the aim was to reach all 126 nurses working in the hospital during the data collection process, 123 nurses participated in the study voluntarily. The Descriptive Characteristics Form, the Spiritual Support Perception Scale and the Attitudes Towards Death Scale were used to collect data.
Results:
A statistically significant difference was found between nurses' knowledge of spirituality and spiritual care, satisfaction with the unit where they work, and belief in the need to provide spiritual care to patients and the total mean scores of spiritual support perceptions. A statistically significant difference was found between the mean scores of the fear of death and death avoidance sub-dimensions and the age of the nurses.
Conclusion:
In light of these findings, programmes can be created in which nurses can receive psychological support or benefit from spiritual support, taking into account their own spiritual needs.
Clinical Trial Number:
Not applicable.
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