Attitudes toward end-of-life care among community health care providers and its influencing factors-A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: A majority of nurses struggled with a negative emotion of anger, doubt, fear, or anxious, uncomfortable in the face of death and dying. However, little was known about community health care providers’ in China. Therefore, we conducted a study to investigate their attitudes toward end-of-life care and analyze its influencing factors. To provide reference for developing effective strategies to promote end-of-life care in China. METHODS: A total of 132 community health care providers of 10 community health care centers in Changzhi city were investigated by a Questionnaire of Attitudes toward Caring for the Dying from May, 2017 to December, 2017, and data was analyzed by SPSS 22.0 software

Author(s): Hong-rui Shi, Ying Zhang, Bai-feng Shan, Qian Chen, Xiu-ying Hu

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