The integration research of death education and resilience cultivation on nursing students / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Our aim was to study the influence of integration courses combining the death education and resilience cultivation on nursing students.Methods 290 nursing students were randomly divided into the control group and the intervention group with 145 students in each group.The students in the intervention group was provided with the integration courses for 20 class hours based on the curricula of the control group.The influence on the resilience,death anxiety,feeling of sense of life,coping style of students was observed.Results Measurement results showed that the students of two groups had no differences in the four aspects before education,but after education the two groups students showed significant difference,including the average score of resilience and death anxiety,total score of feeling of sense of life as well as the dimensions score of life goals and life value t value was 5.703,3.294,3.649,4.130 and 2.129,P ＜ 0.05.In addition,the mean effectiveness of positive coping styles,problem solving and seeking social support of the two groups showed significant difference too,and all the difference had statistical sense,t value was 1.992,1.977 and 3.344,P ＜ 0.05.Conclusions The integration course can reduce death anxiety as well as improve the resilience of nursing students.