Factors affecting attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients among nursing students in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Positive attitudes towards end-of-life care are essential among nursing students to adequately support terminally ill patients and enable students to feel confident about providing end-of-life care. This study aimed to determine nursing students' attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients, as well as the associations between these attitudes and year of study, exposure to terminally ill people, self-perceived nursing skills and subjective impact of instruction.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

A health sciences school in Switzerland.

Participants

All preparatory students, first-year nursing students and third-year nursing students were invited to participate; 178 agreed to participate.

Primary outcome measure

Attitudes towards te

SUBMITTER: Laporte P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7500309 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature