The Effect of End-of-Life Care Awareness Education on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Intensive Care Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Study
End-of-life Care
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for End-of-life Care focused on measuring end-of-life, knowledge, attitude, behaviour, intensive care unit nurse, awarnness
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Completion of undergraduate education, Working in intensive care for at least one year, Actively continuing his/her profession (no annual leave, report, etc.) Willingness and voluntariness to participate in the research Exclusion Criteria: To have a palliative care nursing certificate, Having received training on end-of-life care by participating in a training program such as ELNEC etc, Not having attended more than two sessions in the training program
Sites / Locations
- Istanbul University Institute of Graduate Studies in Health Sciences
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Training Group
Control Group
The "End-of-Life Care Awareness Training Program in Intensive Care" prepared by the researchers in line with the End-of-Life Nursing Education-Intensive Care (ELNEC-Critical Care) program was applied to the intensive care nurses in the training group. The program was implemented online by determining a common day and time interval suitable for the working hours of the nurses. Half an hour before the training, nurses were reminded of the training topics of the relevant week, time, and Zoom link address via text message. 40-60 minutes one day a week for 4 weeks in the training program; Week 1: Introduction of the training program and palliative care nursing in intensive care Week 2: Pain management and management of other symptoms (respiratory, gastrointestinal, etc.) Week 3 Communication, cultural and spiritual issues Week 4: Loss, grief, mourning, and ethics were covered.
Intensive care nurses in the control group did not receive any intervention during the study. The nurses in this group continued to participate in routine in-service trainings. Similar to the training group, the post-test forms/scales "End-of-Life Care Knowledge Test and the Scale of Attitudes and Behaviors of Intensive Care Nurses Towards End-of-Life Care" were administered to the intensive care nurses in the control group in order to determine the changes in the levels of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards end-of-life care over time and to compare them with the training group.