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Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care.
- Source :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession; Apr-Jun2016, Vol. 52 Issue 2-3, p269-285, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Background: Death anxiety is a known phenomenon in older people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) hospitalised for end-of-life (EOL) care. Little is known about how nurses assuage death anxiety in this population. Aims: To investigate strategies used by nurses to assuage death anxiety and facilitate a good death in older CALD Australians hospitalised for EOL care. Methods: Advanced as a qualitative descriptive inquiry, a purposeful sample of 22 nurses was recruited from four Victorian healthcare services. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis processes. Findings: Nurses used three key strategies: recognising death anxiety; delineating its dimensions; and initiating conventional nursingcaring behaviours to help contain it. Contrary to expectations, cultural similarities rather than differences were found in the strategies used. Conclusions: Nursing strategies for recognising, delineating, and managing death anxiety in older CALD people hospitalised at the EOL is an important component of quality EOL care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANXIETY prevention
IMMIGRANTS
CARING
CONTENT analysis
FEAR
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
NURSE-patient relationships
NURSES
NURSES' attitudes
CULTURAL pluralism
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
TERMINAL care
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
ATTITUDES toward death
OCCUPATIONAL roles
THEMATIC analysis
OLD age
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10376178
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 2-3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 118031506
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2016.1192953