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(Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care
This study intended to investigate whether the workload of nurses in the course of providing end-of-life care correlated with their religiousness, spiritual experience and level of agreement with dysthanasia procedures. The respondents included 279 nurses from four Croatian hospitals. A structured a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36673711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020955 |
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author | Juranić, Brankica Včev, Aleksandar Vuletić, Suzana Rakošec, Željko Roguljić, Domagoj Mikšić, Štefica Jakab, Jelena Vujanić, Jasenka Lovrić, Robert |
author_facet | Juranić, Brankica Včev, Aleksandar Vuletić, Suzana Rakošec, Željko Roguljić, Domagoj Mikšić, Štefica Jakab, Jelena Vujanić, Jasenka Lovrić, Robert |
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description | This study intended to investigate whether the workload of nurses in the course of providing end-of-life care correlated with their religiousness, spiritual experience and level of agreement with dysthanasia procedures. The respondents included 279 nurses from four Croatian hospitals. A structured and validated instrument was applied. Almost 90% of respondents are religious, and almost 45% of them have daily spiritual experiences. Respondents, especially those with high levels of religiousness and spiritual experience, express a low level of agreement with dysthanasia (mean = 58.21; score = 25–125). Moreover, nurses self-rated (on a scale of 1–5) their workload as quite high, especially when performing contradictory tasks imposed on them by their superiors (mean = 3.05) and during direct contact with dying patients and their family members (mean = 2.56). This significantly highest level of workload was experienced by the youngest nurses (p = 0.01) and nurses with little work experience (p < 0.01). This study also indicated that nurses who agree with dysthanasia experienced a higher level of workload when providing end-of-life care (r = 0.178; p < 0.01), while more frequent spiritual experiences reduced the level of workload (r = −0.205; p < 0.01). A deeper understanding of nurses’ attitudes toward dysthanasia, as well as of their religiousness and spiritual experiences, may ensure the collection of data beneficial to the timely identification of potential risks caused by workload. |
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spelling | pubmed-98590982023-01-21 (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care Juranić, Brankica Včev, Aleksandar Vuletić, Suzana Rakošec, Željko Roguljić, Domagoj Mikšić, Štefica Jakab, Jelena Vujanić, Jasenka Lovrić, Robert Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study intended to investigate whether the workload of nurses in the course of providing end-of-life care correlated with their religiousness, spiritual experience and level of agreement with dysthanasia procedures. The respondents included 279 nurses from four Croatian hospitals. A structured and validated instrument was applied. Almost 90% of respondents are religious, and almost 45% of them have daily spiritual experiences. Respondents, especially those with high levels of religiousness and spiritual experience, express a low level of agreement with dysthanasia (mean = 58.21; score = 25–125). Moreover, nurses self-rated (on a scale of 1–5) their workload as quite high, especially when performing contradictory tasks imposed on them by their superiors (mean = 3.05) and during direct contact with dying patients and their family members (mean = 2.56). This significantly highest level of workload was experienced by the youngest nurses (p = 0.01) and nurses with little work experience (p < 0.01). This study also indicated that nurses who agree with dysthanasia experienced a higher level of workload when providing end-of-life care (r = 0.178; p < 0.01), while more frequent spiritual experiences reduced the level of workload (r = −0.205; p < 0.01). A deeper understanding of nurses’ attitudes toward dysthanasia, as well as of their religiousness and spiritual experiences, may ensure the collection of data beneficial to the timely identification of potential risks caused by workload. MDPI 2023-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9859098/ /pubmed/36673711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020955 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Juranić, Brankica Včev, Aleksandar Vuletić, Suzana Rakošec, Željko Roguljić, Domagoj Mikšić, Štefica Jakab, Jelena Vujanić, Jasenka Lovrić, Robert (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title | (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title_full | (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title_fullStr | (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title_full_unstemmed | (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title_short | (Dis)Agreement with Dysthanasia, Religiosity and Spiritual Experience as Factors Related to Nurses’ Workload during End-of-Life Care |
title_sort | (dis)agreement with dysthanasia, religiosity and spiritual experience as factors related to nurses’ workload during end-of-life care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36673711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020955 |
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