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• TITLE: Investigation of Student Nurses’ Attitudes towards End-of-Life Care and Their Influencing Factors

  AUTHORS: Lei Peng, Jingxian Wang, Jia Wang, Qiangqiang Liu

  KEYWORDS: Nursing Students, End-of-Life Care, Attitude

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Nursing, Vol.14 No.5, May 17, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Background: This cross-sectional investigative study aimed to determine student nurses’ attitudes towards end-of-life care. Methods: This study used a descriptive research design with stratified sampling to survey student nurses enrolled in one of four nursing colleges in China from January 2023 to December 2023. Student nurses’ general demographic and prior related information, attitudes towards death and attitudes towards end-of-life care were determined using a general information questionnaire, the Death Attitude Profile—Revised scale and the Professional End-of-Life Attitude Scale (PEAS), respectively. Results: The total PEAS score was 122.91 ± 16.123. Significant differences were noted in the attitude towards end-of-life care scores according to sources of end-of-life care knowledge (P Conclusions: Student nurses lacked an optimistic attitude towards end-of-life care, which was influenced by differences in the sources of end-of-life care knowledge.