South Dakota State University
Death Anxiety and Clinical Experience in Generic Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe problem under study was the relationship between death anxiety and clinical experience anxiety in generic baccalaureate nursing students. A convenience sample of 23 female nursing students from 3 baccalaureate schools of nursing in the upper midwest was utilized. The research instrument consisted of demographic data, a 7 point Likert like version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, and two 7 point Likert-like questions relating to clinical experience anxiety. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Nursing students in the sample experienced moderate levels of death anxiety and clinical experience anxiety. A weak inverse correlation between death anxiety and clinical experience anxiety was found. A significant relationship between lack of work experience in a hospital and low clinical experience anxiety was noted. The relationship between high death anxiety and care of the dying was significant. Previous research reporting no significant relationship between death anxiety and age or death anxiety and religion was supported by the findings of this study.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science (MS)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis - University Access Only
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Graduate Nursing
- Year
- 1993
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hanson, Carol D.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Margaret Hegge
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright © 1993 Carol Hanson. All rights reserved
- Language dc:language
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/734
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:openprairie.sdstate.edu:etd-1734