Attitudes toward care of the terminally ill: An educational intervention

Frommelt, Katherine H. Murray

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“…The questionnaire of respondent characteristics consisted of gender, experience in caring for dying patients, experience in training programs, and academic levels. The FATCOD-BI is the adoption of the questionnaire the Frommelt Attitudes toward the Care of the Dying Care Form B (FATCOD-B) developed in the United States (Frommelt, 2003). The FATCOD-B questionnaire of Indonesian version was adopted by A'la (2016).…”

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“…All of these studies used the Frommelt Attitudes toward the Care of the Dying Care Form B (FATCOD-B) to explore the attitudes (Frommelt, 2003;Henoch et al, 2014;Iranmanesh, Savenstedt, & Abbaszadeh, 2008;Nakai, Miyashita, & Sasahara, 2006;Wang, Li, Yan, & Li, 2016). The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) was also added and utilized in one of the studies (Iranmanesh et al, 2008).…”

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Nursing Students’ Attitudes towards Caring for Dying Patients

A'la

Setioputro

Kurniawan

2018

Nurs. Med. J. Nursing

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Background: Dying is a normal human phenomenon that requires a holistic care approach. Nurses' attitudes towards the care for dying patients need to be explored, understood, and analyzed to improve the quality of care in palliative setting, including in nursing students. Purpose: This study explored the nursing students' attitude and its relationship with the students' demographic profile in caring for the dying patients in Indonesia. Methods: This study used a quantitative descriptive cross-sectional research design. The samples were 192 nursing students from Universitas Jember, Indonesia, who were recruited by using simple random sampling. Data were collected using the Frommelt Attitudes towards the Care of the Dying Care Form B Indonesian version (FATCOD-BI). The reliability test of FATCOD-BI showed a Cronbach's alpha of 0.68, and the result of validity test using correlation coefficient showed the range of -0.278 to 0.544. Data were analyzed using frequency distribution, and mean differences test using t-test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Results: Results showed that the mean of nursing students' attitudes in caring for dying patients was 93.83±5.96 (range 30-120). Gender and training experiences had no relationship with students' attitudes in caring for dying patients (p=0.22 and p=0.943). There was a relationship between the experiences and student academic level and the students' attitudes in caring for dying patients (p=0.023 and p=0.036). The students' experiences and academic level become a primary factor in the attitudes toward caring for dying patients. Conclusion: Findings revealed that student nurses' attitudes in caring for dying patients was in low category and there was no significant relationship between gender and training experience and students' attitudes towards caring for the dying patients. In contrast, experiences in caring for dying patients and academic level were associated with students' attitudes. Further studies in the development of curriculum on dying patient care emphasizing on socio-demographic status are recommended.

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Nursing Students’ Attitudes towards Caring for Dying Patients

A'la

Setioputro

Kurniawan

2018

Nurs. Med. J. Nursing

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“…(Frommelt, 2003). The question raised by Frommelt was clearly rhetorical and seemed to suggest an implicit answer, namely, that education in palliative care may not exempt itself from conducting the students through a process of introspection and personal growth.…”

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“…Focusing on the relationship with the dying patient during care, rather than on death and dying as general concepts, the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale Form-B (FATCOD-B) (Frommelt, 1991; appears to be a useful instrument for end-of-life care education because it provides information about the behavior of the health professionals in clinical practice. The original version of the scale, named FATCOD, had been developed for nurses (Frommelt, 1991); subsequently, the FATCOD was slightly modified in FATCOD-B to be administered to students coming from different programs of study (Frommelt, 2003 Leombruni et al, 2014a). All of these studies come from nursing education research and, despite its potential for use in medical education, the FATCOD-B scale has rarely been administered to medical students (Leombruni et al, 2012;2014b).…”

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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) among Italian medical students

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Objective:A steady increase in the number of patients requiring end-of-life care has been observed during the last decades. The assessment of healthcare students' attitudes toward end-of-life care is an important step in their curriculum, as it provides information about their disposition to practice palliative medicine. The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) was developed to detect such a disposition, but its psychometric properties are yet to be clearly defined.Method:A convenience sample of 608 second-year medical students participated in our study in the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 academic years. All participants completed the FATCOD–B. The sample was randomly divided in two subsamples. In the item analysis, reliability (Cronbach's α), internal consistency (item–total correlations), and an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted using the first subsample (n= 300). Using the second subsample (n= 308), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed using the robust ML method in the Lisrel program.Results:Reliability for all items was 0.699. Item–total correlations, ranging from 0.03 to 0.39, were weak. EFA identified a two-dimensional orthogonal solution, explaining 20% of total variance. CFA upheld the two-dimensional model, but the loadings on the dimensions and their respective indicators were weak and equal to zero for certain items.Significance of Results:The findings of the present study suggest that the FATCOD–B measures a two-dimensional construct and that several items seem in need of revision. Future research oriented toward building a revised version of the scale should pay attention to item ambiguity and take particular care to distinguish among items that concern emotions and beliefs related to end-of-life care, as well as their subjects (e.g., the healthcare provider, the patient, his family).

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“…4 Because the nurse has the greatest amount of contact with the dying patients, society expects that nurses are prepared to provide the best care possible. 5 In a study by Frommelt,6 76.5% of nurses surveyed felt inadequately prepared to care for the Background and objective: Nurses play a key role in providing care at the end of life; death is inevitable that affect every human being. Nurses are present at both the beginning and the end of life and play a key role in caring for dying patients.…”

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Nurses’ attitude toward the care of dying cases in the cardiac center in Erbil city

Abdulla

Sheren

Naqshbandi

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the Frommelt Attitudes toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) and demographics questionnaire designed and copyrighted by Katherine Frommlet in 1988. Results: The study indicated that there was positive attitude among study samples. Results showed that no significant relationship between attitudes score with gender, nurse education, and duration of service, while there was significant association between high attitudes score with older ages (P = 0.003). Conclusion: The nurse's attitudes toward dealing with dying cases were positive in the majority of related items, and there were no associations between gender, duration of experience, and level of education and their attitude, while it was found a significant association between ages and attitudes towards care of the dying. Keywords: Attitude, Care of Dying, Cardiac Centre. Salih A. Abdulla * Nazar Ali Sheren * Vian A. Naqshbandi ** Namir G. Al-Tawil *** Nurses' attitude toward the care …….

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Attitudes toward care of the terminally ill: An educational intervention

Cited by 190 publications

References 5 publications

Nursing Students’ Attitudes towards Caring for Dying Patients

Nursing Students’ Attitudes towards Caring for Dying Patients

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) among Italian medical students

Nurses’ attitude toward the care of dying cases in the cardiac center in Erbil city

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