死亡教育對護專學生死亡態度之影響

The Effect of Death Education Program on Nursing School Students' Attitudes Toward Death

鍾春櫻(C.Y. Chung)

《護理研究》 2卷3期 (1994/09) Pp. 227-238

https://doi.org/10.7081/NR.199409.0227

摘要

本研究的主要目的在設計一套適合護專學生的死亡教育短期課程，並探究其對護專學生死亡態度的影響，和不同的教學方法對結果的影響。
本研究以台中縣私立弘光醫事護理專科學校護理科四年級學生107人爲研究對象，配合實驗學校實際教學環境，採凖實驗研究法的不相等控制組設計，以獨立樣本單因子變異數分析對所得資料進行統計分析，以驗證死亡教育對護專學生死亡態度的影響及不同教學方法的效果。
本研究的主要發現如下：
一、死亡教育課程對護專學生死亡態度有正向的效果，且在課程結束四星期的追蹤測量上仍能維持。
二、兩種不同的死亡教育教學方式對降低學生面對死亡恐懼的效果沒有差別。
三、死亡教育課程內容強調個人面對死亡時情感的探索，及支持性小團體的分享和討論爲本研究死亡教育降低學生死亡恐懼的兩個主要因素。
四、死亡教育提供學生探索面對自己死亡及重要他人死亡的體驗機會，促使學生了解個人生命的意義，對個人生活産生嶄新看法和計畫。

關鍵字

死亡教育 ； 死亡態度 ； 護專學生

並列摘要

The main purpose of this study was to develop a short-term death education program and to study its effects on the nursing school students' attitudes toward death.
Sample of this study consisted of 107 senior nursing students in Huang Kuang Junior College of Nursing and Medical Technology in Tai-chung. Coordinating with experiments on practical teching environment, quasi-experimental design was applied. The data was analyzed by one way analysis of variance to test the hypotheses concerning the effects of different teaching methods and the influences of death education on the nursing school students' attitudes toward death.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
1. The death education program significantly reduced the nursing students' fears of death, and the effect might remain following the four weeks of the courses.
2. Two different teaching methods got the same results in reducing fears of death.
3. Two important factors helping the students to reduce fears toward death were (1) exploring effective responses when a person faces death and (2) sharing and discussing the feelings in a supportive group when a person was facing death.
4. Death education inspired the students to think about their own deaths and those of their significant others. Death education also helped the students to understand better the meaning of life and to rearrange their life plans.

並列關鍵字

death education ； attitudes toward death ； nursing school student