Investigation of Death Anxiety in Turkish Intensive Care Nurses After the Pandemic

Year 2024, , 25 - 30, 30.01.2024

Mehtap Kızılkaya , Ahmet Salim Özkaya , Kerime Derya Beydağ

https://doi.org/10.61399/ikcusbfd.1267198

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to determine factors affecting intensive care nurses’ death anxiety levels in the post-pandemic period.
Material and Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with intensive care nurses between May and June 2022 (n=522). Data were obtained with the Introductory Information Form and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale.
Results: It was determined that the death anxiety levels of the nurses were high. The death anxiety scale mean scores of the participants were determined as 11.30±0.99 (min:8, max:15). The death anxiety level of the nurses who have a graduate degree and are between the ages of 31-40 was found to be higher than that of their other colleagues. No statistically significant difference was found between nurses' gender, marital status, chronic illness, years of working in the profession, and the death anxiety scale total score (p>0.05).
Conclusions: The results of the research can be a reference understanding the death anxiety of intensive care nurses. Involving nurses in a comprehensive death education program that gives them the opportunity to express their feelings can help reduce their anxiety.

Keywords

Intensive care, nurse, death anxiety, post-pandemic, COVID-19.

Türk Yoğun Bakım Hemşirelerinde Pandemi Sonrası Ölüm Kaygısının İncelenmesi

Abstract

Amaç: Bu araştırmada yoğun bakım hemşirelerinin pandemi sonrası süreçte ölüm kaygısı düzeylerini etkileyen faktörleri belirlemek amaçlanmıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı kesitsel tipteki bu araştırma, Mayıs- Haziran 2022 tarihlerinde yoğun bakım hemşireleri ile gerçekleştirilmiştir (n=522). Veriler Tanıtıcı Bilgi Formu ve Templer Ölüm Kaygısı Ölçeği ile elde edilmiştir.
Bulgular: Hemşirelerin ölüm kaygısı düzeylerinin yüksek olduğu belirlenmiştir. Katılımcıların ölüm kaygısı ölçeği puan ortalamaları 11.30±0.99 (min:8, max:15) olarak saptanmıştır. Lisansüstü mezunu olan ve 31-40 yaş aralığında bulunan hemşirelerin ölüm kaygısı düzeyi diğer meslektaşlarına göre daha yüksek bulunmuştur. Hemşirelerin cinsiyetleri, medeni durumları, kronik hastalık olma durumu ve meslekte çalışma yılı ile ölüm kaygısı ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı farklılık saptanmamıştır (p>0.05).
Sonuç: Araştırma sonuçları, yoğun bakım hemşirelerinin ölüm kaygılarını anlamada bir referans olabilir. Hemşirelerin duygularını ifade etmeye fırsat veren kapsamlı bir ölüm eğitimine dahil edilmeleri kaygılarını azaltmada yardımcı olabilir.

Keywords

Yoğun bakım, hemşire, ölüm kaygısı, pandemi sonrası, COVID-19.

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