This study explored that hospice program influenced fear of death, and attitude of death among 99 nursing students of associate degree post-registration and investigated others influencing factors. Pre-test and post-test executed the proceeding of the hospice program. The self-administered instruments were used for data collection, they included the revisions of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, Attitudes towards Death and Dying and teaching evaluation scale. The data adopted SPSS for windows and were examined by frequency, mean, one-way ANOVA, t-test and correlation. Based on the analyses, the results indicated that (1) the associate degree of post-register student nurses had the highest score on fear ”death of self”, (2) the subjects exhibited positive aspect on ”professional challenge”, (3) fear and attitude toward death had significant differences to age, race and experience, (4) after hospice program, the subjects improved the fear and attitude toward death, and felt more comfortable to discuss dying issues (p<.05), (5) the subjects appraised the curriculum as ”content learning requirements”, the more satisfied with hospice program the less of fear ”talking about death” and ”fear toward death” (p<.05). The findings would apply to amend the hospice program, provide other institute for setting up the curriculums related to death.
This study explored that hospice program influenced fear of death, and attitude of death among 99 nursing students of associate degree post-registration and investigated others influencing factors. Pre-test and post-test executed the proceeding of the hospice program. The self-administered instruments were used for data collection, they included the revisions of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, Attitudes towards Death and Dying and teaching evaluation scale. The data adopted SPSS for windows and were examined by frequency, mean, one-way ANOVA, t-test and correlation. Based on the analyses, the results indicated that (1) the associate degree of post-register student nurses had the highest score on fear ”death of self”, (2) the subjects exhibited positive aspect on ”professional challenge”, (3) fear and attitude toward death had significant differences to age, race and experience, (4) after hospice program, the subjects improved the fear and attitude toward death, and felt more comfortable to discuss dying issues (p<.05), (5) the subjects appraised the curriculum as ”content learning requirements”, the more satisfied with hospice program the less of fear ”talking about death” and ”fear toward death” (p<.05). The findings would apply to amend the hospice program, provide other institute for setting up the curriculums related to death.