Death Anxiety of Nursing Students Returning to Clinical Practice During The COVID-19 Pandemic Period

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 33 Sayı: 1, 44 - 50, 28.02.2023

Berna Aksoy Eylem Paslı Gürdoğan Ezgi Kınıcı

https://doi.org/10.54005/geneltip.1191112

Öz

Aim: Diseases with high mortality rates such as COVID-19 increase the death anxiety level. This pandemic process has had an impact on the mental health of nursing students in terms of emotions and cognition such as fear of death and anxiety. The purpose of this present study was to determine the level of death anxiety among nursing students returning to clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with the students enrolled nursing department of a university between March and July 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic (n= 337). The data were collected using the students’ information form and the Death Anxiety Scale through an online survey.
Results: The students had a low level of death anxiety. Nursing students’ age, gender, previous education about death, the state of infected with COVID-19, the state of afraid to be infected with COVID-19 and the afraid of caregiving for COVID-19 patients were found to be factors related to death anxiety.
Conclusion: This study highlights that COVID-19 affected the death anxiety of nursing students and students need support and preventive strategies to care for dying patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anahtar Kelimeler

Death, anxiety, COVID-19, clinical training, nursing students

Destekleyen Kurum

The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Teşekkür

The authors would like to thank the contribution of all the students who participated in the study.

COVID-19 Pandemi Döneminde Klinik Uygulamaya Dönen Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Ölüm Kaygısı

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Amaç: COVID-19 gibi ölüm oranlarının yüksek olduğu hastalıklar ölüm kaygısını artırmaktadır. Bu pandemi süreci, hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ruh sağlığını ölüm korkusu ve kaygı gibi duygu ve bilişler açısından etkilemiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, COVID-19 sırasında klinik uygulamayı deneyimleyen hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ölüm kaygısı düzeyini ve etkileyen faktörleri araştırmaktır.
Yöntemler: Tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel tipte olan bu araştırma, Türkiye'de bir üniversitenin sağlık bilimleri fakültesi hemşirelik bölümünde öğrenim gören öğrenciler ile Mart-Temmuz 2021 tarihleri arasında COVID-19 pandemisi sürecinde yürütüldü. Veriler, öğrenci bilgi formu ve Ölüm Kaygısı Ölçeği kullanılarak çevrimiçi bir anket aracılığıyla toplanmıştır.
Bulgular: Öğrencilerin ölüm kaygısı düşük düzeydeydi. Hemşirelik öğrencilerinin yaşı, cinsiyeti, ölüm ile ilgili önceki eğitim alma durumu, COVID-19 ile enfekte olma durumu, COVID-19 ile enfekte olmaktan korkma durumu ve COVID-19 hastalarına bakım verme korkusu öğrencilerin ölüm kaygısı ile ilişkili faktörlerdi.
Sonuç: Bu çalışma, COVID-19'un hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ölüm kaygısını etkilediğini ve öğrencilerin COVID-19 pandemisi sırasında ölmekte olan hastaların bakımı için desteğe ve önleyici stratejilere ihtiyaç duyduğunu vurgulamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Ölüm, kaygı, COVID-19, klinik eğitim, hemşirelik öğrencileri

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