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Attitudes and Knowledge of Iranian Nurses about Hospice Care

CONTEXT: Due to expansion of chronic diseases and increase of health care costs, there is a need for planning and delivering hospice care for patients in their final stages of life in Iran. The aim of the present study is to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of nurses about delivering hospice...

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Autores principales: Azami-Aghdash, Saber, Jabbari, Hossein, Bakhshian, Fariba, Shafaei, Leila, Shafaei, Soheyla, Kolahdouzan, Kasra, Mohseni, Mohammad
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26009676
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.156505
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author Azami-Aghdash, Saber
Jabbari, Hossein
Bakhshian, Fariba
Shafaei, Leila
Shafaei, Soheyla
Kolahdouzan, Kasra
Mohseni, Mohammad
author_facet Azami-Aghdash, Saber
Jabbari, Hossein
Bakhshian, Fariba
Shafaei, Leila
Shafaei, Soheyla
Kolahdouzan, Kasra
Mohseni, Mohammad
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description CONTEXT: Due to expansion of chronic diseases and increase of health care costs, there is a need for planning and delivering hospice care for patients in their final stages of life in Iran. The aim of the present study is to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of nurses about delivering hospice care for End of Life (EOL) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 with a sample size of 200 nurses that were selected by convenient (available) sampling. The data collection instrument was a self-administered questionnaire whose validity was approved by experts’ opinions and its reliability was approved by test-retest method. RESULTS: Among all participants of this study, 87% were female. The mean age of nurses was 32.00 ± 6.72. From all respondents 62% stated that they have no knowledge about hospice care and 80% declared that need for hospice care is increasing. Most of the participants felt that, appropriate services are not presented to patients in the final stages of their lives. About 80% believed that hospice care leads to reduction of health care costs, improvement of physical, mental and social health of patients and finally improvement of the quality of health care services. There was a significant relationship between age, employment history and level of education of nurses and their attitude and knowledge about how this service is provided. CONCLUSION: In view of the increase in chronic illnesses and the costs of caring, the need for provision of hospice care is felt more and more every day. However the awareness level of nurses about these services is low. Therefore the need for including these issues in nursing curriculum and holding scientific courses and seminars in this field is needed.
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spelling pubmed-44411842015-05-25 Attitudes and Knowledge of Iranian Nurses about Hospice Care Azami-Aghdash, Saber Jabbari, Hossein Bakhshian, Fariba Shafaei, Leila Shafaei, Soheyla Kolahdouzan, Kasra Mohseni, Mohammad Indian J Palliat Care Original Article CONTEXT: Due to expansion of chronic diseases and increase of health care costs, there is a need for planning and delivering hospice care for patients in their final stages of life in Iran. The aim of the present study is to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of nurses about delivering hospice care for End of Life (EOL) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 with a sample size of 200 nurses that were selected by convenient (available) sampling. The data collection instrument was a self-administered questionnaire whose validity was approved by experts’ opinions and its reliability was approved by test-retest method. RESULTS: Among all participants of this study, 87% were female. The mean age of nurses was 32.00 ± 6.72. From all respondents 62% stated that they have no knowledge about hospice care and 80% declared that need for hospice care is increasing. Most of the participants felt that, appropriate services are not presented to patients in the final stages of their lives. About 80% believed that hospice care leads to reduction of health care costs, improvement of physical, mental and social health of patients and finally improvement of the quality of health care services. There was a significant relationship between age, employment history and level of education of nurses and their attitude and knowledge about how this service is provided. CONCLUSION: In view of the increase in chronic illnesses and the costs of caring, the need for provision of hospice care is felt more and more every day. However the awareness level of nurses about these services is low. Therefore the need for including these issues in nursing curriculum and holding scientific courses and seminars in this field is needed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4441184/ /pubmed/26009676 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.156505 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bakhshian, Fariba
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Shafaei, Soheyla
Kolahdouzan, Kasra
Mohseni, Mohammad
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441184/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.156505
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