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Investigating Nurses’ Views of the Quality of Dying and Death in Intensive Care Units of Hospitals Affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2023: A Cross Sectional Study
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Mohammad Javadinejad   , Fatemeh Bahramnezhad * |
| School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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Background & aim: Thinking about death is a human cognitive activity which affects a dying patient and the individuals who take care of them, especially nurses. Considering the high mortality rate in ICUs, the present study aims to determine the views of the nurses of ICUs regarding patients’ quality of dying and death.
Methods: This descriptive-cross-sectional study was conducted in 2023 in hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The research population consisted of 176 ICU nurses in hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences, who were selected via a convenient sampling method. The data was collected using a demographic survey and the Quality of Dying and Death (QODD) Questionnaire —Version 3.2a by Cho et al. (2017).
Results: In evaluating the quality of dying and death and its three components (patient’s experience at the end of life, end-of-life medical care, and quality of the moment of death experience), it can be stated that all of these components were lower than the mean scores. Therefore, from the nurses’ viewpoints, the quality of dying and death and its components are lower than mean scores. Regarding the demographic characteristics (gender and marital status), there was no significant difference in the quality of dying and death of terminally ill patients in ICUs of hospitals affiliated with Tehran University. In regards to nurses’ education and their received training in the field of quality of dying and death, a significant difference was observed (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Regarding nurses' understanding of the quality of dying and death in ICUs, planning can be done to help preserve the human dignity of dying patients and the peace of their families by creating supportive measures. Through this process, families can also be assured that by maintaining the patient's human dignity, their death can be more convenient, and can be a foundation for knowledge in this field. |
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| Keywords: Quality of Dying and Death, ICU, Nurse |
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Received: 2024/03/14 | Accepted: 2024/06/30 | Published: 2024/11/2
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