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| Social work students' comfort with end-of-life care | | Author(s) | Kelsey Simons, Eunice Park-Lee |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Work in End-of-life & Palliative Care, vol 5, nos 1-2, 2009 |
| Publisher | Haworth Social Work Practice Press, Binghamton, NY, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 34-48 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Death ; Anxiety ; Terminal care ; Attitude ; Social workers ; Students ; Social surveys ; Canada ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study identified characteristics among social work students that influence their level of comfort with end-of-life practice situations. Two hundred and seventy-two students from the United States and Canada completed an online survey that assessed levels of death anxiety, experience with death, and comfort with end-of-life care. The majority of respondents were MSW students. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that students with less death anxiety, those who had already completed or were interested in hospice field placements, had personal experience with death, and were age 35+ had greater comfort levels. Results of this research have implications for social work education and practice by contributing knowledge that may be useful in the development of end-of-life curricula and continuing education programmes. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100825208 A |
| Classmark | CW: ENP: LV: DP: QR: XN: 3F: 7S: 7T |
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