Nursing students and their influence of resilience and psychological well-being on attitude to death

Abstract

Background: The distress of patients and patients' families who suffer and face death circumstances is suggested to be the most distressing experience nursing students have while undergoing nursing school. Therefore, the current study aim to investigate how nursing students' attitudes on mortality are influenced by their resilience, level of life satisfaction, and psychological health.

Methodology: The current descriptive study was conducted at Koohi Goth Women Hospital, Karachi-Pakistan, from February 2022 to May 2022. A total of 55 nursing students were recruited. Resilience was measure using the 10-item Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC), while Satisfaction with Life Scale was used to measure the life satisfaction. The 18-item Psychological Wellbeing Scale was used to measure the psychological well-being, while the attitude of nursing students on mortality was determined using the attitude to death scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS.20.

Results: A total of 55 nursing students take part in the study. The mean age of the study participants was 19.89 ± 1.51 years. It was observed that, majority of students (81.8%) were satisfied with their training. While most of them (72.7) did not have any experience of death. 61.8% of the student said that they did get education related to death. The mean score for Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) was 30.40 ± 1.51. While mean score for Satisfaction with Life Scale was 18.85 ± 1.56. Mean score for Psychological Wellbeing Scale and the attitude to death scale were 87.44 ± 4.37 and 34.62 ± 1.13, respectively.

Conclusion: It is found that the level of psychological wellbeing and death related education act as major influencing factors in establishing the attitude of nursing student toward death. Hence, it is important to educate the student about death for better resilience.