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Understanding Death: Cultural Factors Affecting Nursing Students' Perception

NCT ID: NCT06852404

Last Updated: 2025-02-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-03-15

Study Completion Date

2025-06-15

Brief Summary

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Cultural factors play a key role in shaping individuals' perceptions of death, alongside personal beliefs, professional experience, and education. Nursing students must balance their personal and cultural values with their professional responsibilities, as cultural differences influence attitudes toward death and mourning. Understanding nursing students' perceptions of death is crucial for enhancing their education and professional competence. Integrating cultural perspectives into nursing education can help students develop a more conscious and prepared approach to end-of-life care. This study aims to explore the impact of cultural factors on nursing students' perceptions of death and propose strategies to enhance cultural sensitivity in education.

Detailed Description

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Death is a universal phenomenon with varying meanings at both individual and societal levels. Today, most deaths occur in hospitals, highlighting the critical role of nurses in end-of-life care. However, research indicates that patient death is a significant source of stress for nursing students, who often feel unprepared to cope with it. Cultural factors play a key role in shaping individuals' perceptions of death, alongside personal beliefs, professional experience, and education. Nursing students must balance their personal and cultural values with their professional responsibilities, as cultural differences influence attitudes toward death and mourning. Some cultures openly discuss death, while others consider it a taboo, affecting students' experiences and emotional responses. Understanding nursing students' perceptions of death is crucial for enhancing their education and professional competence. Integrating cultural perspectives into nursing education can help students develop a more conscious and prepared approach to end-of-life care.

This study aims to explore the impact of cultural factors on nursing students' perceptions of death and propose strategies to enhance cultural sensitivity in education. Using the photo storytelling method, it will examine how students shape their perceptions of death through visual and narrative expressions, fostering deeper cultural awareness and emotional resilience in their professional practice. In this study, students meeting the inclusion criteria will be informed about the research's purpose and method and invited to participate. Those who agree will complete a Demographic Information Form. Participants will then be asked to submit three self-taken photos reflecting their perception of death within one week. Before taking the photos, they will receive guidelines on the procedure. Photos, along with date, time, and brief descriptions, will be sent via email to the lead researcher. The collected photos will be securely stored on the researcher's personal computer, coded, and preserved with transcripts for use during interviews.

Conditions

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Nursing Education Death Cultural Factors

Keywords

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cultural factors transcultural care death nursing students

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Interventions

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Photovoice

Photovoice is a participant-driven research method that enables individuals to communicate their experiences through visual data. It is especially useful for exploring social issues and the challenges people encounter. In this approach, participants capture images that they find meaningful in relation to the research topic, using these photographs to express their emotions, thoughts, and personal experiences.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Be a third-year student in the Nursing Department of a Health Sciences Faculty at a university in Ankara during the 2024-2025 academic year
* Own a smartphone capable of taking photographs
* Be willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

* Students who wish to withdraw from the study at any stage will not be included in the research.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Ankara University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Nursemin ÜNAL

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Nursemin Unal, Assoc. Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ankara University

Central Contacts

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Nursemin Unal, Assoc. Prof.

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +905077433629

Email: [email protected]

Gamze Acavut, Assist.Prof.

Role: CONTACT

References

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Zheng R, Guo Q, Dong F, Gao L. Death Self-efficacy, Attitudes Toward Death and Burnout Among Oncology Nurses: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study. Cancer Nurs. 2022 Mar-Apr 01;45(2):E388-E396. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000839.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32511153 (View on PubMed)

Petrongolo M, Toothaker R. Nursing students perceptions of death and dying: A descriptive quantitative study. Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Sep;104:104993. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104993. Epub 2021 May 28.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34098421 (View on PubMed)

Wang C, Burris MA. Photovoice: concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment. Health Educ Behav. 1997 Jun;24(3):369-87. doi: 10.1177/109019819702400309.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 9158980 (View on PubMed)

Randall PS, De Gagne JC, Yamane SS, Lee E. The use of photovoice in nursing education: A scoping review. Nurs Health Sci. 2023 Dec;25(4):516-529. doi: 10.1111/nhs.13057. Epub 2023 Oct 14.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 37837266 (View on PubMed)

Wang Y, Jin X, Liu M. Nursing students' perceptions of a good death: A mixed method study. Nurse Educ Today. 2024 Nov;142:106343. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106343. Epub 2024 Aug 5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 39126999 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2025

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id