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The Effect of End-of-Life Care Awareness Education on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Intensive Care Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Study

NCT05994430 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2023-08-16

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Summary

This study was designed as a prospective randomized controlled study in order to evaluate the effect of end-of-life care awareness training to be given to intensive care nurses on the knowledge levels, attitudes, and behaviors of nurses. The study was conducted between May and July 2023 with 76 nurses working in the Anesthesia and Reanimation Intensive Care Unit, General Intensive Care Unit, and Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit of Van Training and Research Hospital, who met the inclusion criteria. The hypotheses of this research:

H1: End-of-life care awareness training increases the knowledge level of intensive care nurses about end-of-life care.

H2: End-of-life care awareness training positively affects intensive care nurses' attitudes toward end-of-life care.

H3: End-of-life care awareness training positively affects the behaviors of intensive care nurses towards end-of-life care.

Nurses who completed their undergraduate education worked in intensive care for at least one year, actively continued their profession (no annual leave, report, etc.), and were willing and voluntary to participate in the study were included in the study. Nurses who had a palliative care nursing certificate, had received training on end-of-life care by participating in a training program such as ELNEC, and had not participated in the training program of the study for more than two sessions were not included in the study.

At the beginning of the research, the pre-test forms/scales "Nurse Information Form", "End-of-Life Care Knowledge Test" and "Intensive Care Nurses' Attitudes and Behaviors Towards End-of-Life Care Scale" were administered to all nurses. After the pre-test application, the nurses were randomly included in the training and control groups. A randomization list generated by a computer-based random number sequence was used to determine which group the intensive care nurses would be in.

* The "End-of-Life Care Education Program in Intensive Care" prepared by the researchers in line with the End-of-Life Nursing Education-Intensive Care program was applied to the intensive care nurses in the training group. The training program was implemented online for 45-60 minutes one day a week for 4 weeks. The same forms/scales were repeated 4 weeks after the training.
* Intensive care nurses in the control group did not receive any intervention during the study. Similar to the training group, the same forms/scales were repeated 4 weeks after the training. After the study is completed, the same training program will be applied to the nurses in the control group.

Conditions

  • End-of-life Care

Interventions

OTHER

End-of-life care awareness training in intensive care

End-of-life care awareness training in intensive care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-01
Primary Completion
2023-07-30
Completion
2023-10-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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