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Sarhadi M, Mazloom S. Death Anxiety in Nursing Students. Health Educ Health Promot 2024; 12 (3) :423-430
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M. Sarhadi *1, S. Mazloom2
1- “Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery” and “Community Nursing Research Center”, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
2- Department of Nursing, Zahedan branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
2- Department of Nursing, Zahedan branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
Abstract: (325 Views)
Aims: Death is an important and significant issue in nursing. The present study aimed to explain death anxiety among nursing students using a qualitative approach.
Participants & Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted on 12 nursing students from the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Zahedan during 2023-2024. The participants were selected through purposive sampling and attended semi-structured interviews after providing informed consent. The interviews were immediately transcribed and analyzed using a conventional content analysis technique. The data were coded by MAXQDA2020 software and analyzed using the content analysis method proposed by Graneheim and Lundman.
Findings: The students recognized the reality of death and its existential necessity. They also pointed to the lack of confrontation with death and after-death experiences, the meaning of death, the quality of death and dying, concerns about survivors, and emotional confrontation.
Conclusion: There are many concepts regarding the concept of death, with one of the most important ones highlighted by almost all participants being the reality of death and its existential necessity.
Participants & Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted on 12 nursing students from the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Zahedan during 2023-2024. The participants were selected through purposive sampling and attended semi-structured interviews after providing informed consent. The interviews were immediately transcribed and analyzed using a conventional content analysis technique. The data were coded by MAXQDA2020 software and analyzed using the content analysis method proposed by Graneheim and Lundman.
Findings: The students recognized the reality of death and its existential necessity. They also pointed to the lack of confrontation with death and after-death experiences, the meaning of death, the quality of death and dying, concerns about survivors, and emotional confrontation.
Conclusion: There are many concepts regarding the concept of death, with one of the most important ones highlighted by almost all participants being the reality of death and its existential necessity.
Article Type: Qualitative Research |
Subject:
Quality of Life
Received: 2024/06/2 | Accepted: 2024/09/7 | Published: 2024/09/30
Received: 2024/06/2 | Accepted: 2024/09/7 | Published: 2024/09/30
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