Moderating Effect of Nurse’s Character on the Relationship between Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care in South Korea
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design
2.2. Participants and Data Collection
2.3. Measurements
2.3.1. Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying (ANCD)
2.3.2. Performance of Terminal Care
2.3.3. Nurse’s Character (ND)
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Participants’ Characteristics
3.2. Differences in the Performance of Terminal Care According to General Characteristics
3.3. Correlation between Independent Variables
3.4. Moderating Effects of Nurse’s Character in Relation to Attitude toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Categories | M ± SD or n (%) | MIN–MAX |
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Age (yr) | 39.4 ± 10.8 | 24.0–68.0 | |
≤30 | 48 (30.4) | ||
31–40 | 45 (28.5) | ||
41–50 | 38 (24.1) | ||
≥50 | 27 (17.1) | ||
Educational level | 3-year nursing school | 20 (12.7) | |
Bachelor’s degree | 119 (75.3) | ||
Master’s degree or higher | 19 (12.0) | ||
Having religion | Yes | 108 (68.4) | |
No | 50 (31.6) | ||
Marital status | Yes | 76 (48.1) | |
No | 82 (51.9) | ||
Living alone | Yes | 48 (22.2) | |
No | 123 (77.8) | ||
Career of hospice nurse (yr) | 3.98 ± 4.16 | 0–24.0 | |
≤1 | 53 (33.5) | ||
2–3 | 42 (26.6) | ||
4–10 | 41 (26.0) | ||
≥11 | 22 (13.9) | ||
Hospice specialist nurse | Yes | 38 (24.1) | |
No | 120 (75.9) | ||
Job satisfaction | dissatisfaction | 7 (4.4) | |
moderate | 46 (29.1) | ||
satisfaction | 105 (66.5) | ||
Attitudes toward nursing care of the dying | 3.22 ± 0.31 | 2.40–3.80 | |
Performance of terminal care | 3.18 ± 0.33 | 2.57–4.00 | |
Nurse’s character | 4.06 ± 0.40 | 2.87–4.97 |
Characteristics | Categories | Performance of Terminal Care | |
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M ± SD | t or F (p) | ||
Age (yr) | ≤30 a | 3.06 ± 0.31 | 7.04 (<0.001) a < b < c,d |
31–40 b | 3.13 ± 0.31 | ||
41–50 c | 3.27 ± 0.30 | ||
≥51 d | 3.36 ± 0.33 | ||
Educational level | Diploma | 3.20 ± 0.30 | 0.36 (0.697) |
Bachelor’s degree | 3.19 ± 0.34 | ||
Master’s degree | 3.12 ± 0.29 | ||
Having religion | Yes | 3.25 ± 0.33 | 4.26 (<0.001) |
No | 3.02 ± 0.27 | ||
Marital status | Yes | 3.28 ± 0.33 | 3.79 (<0.001) |
No | 3.09 ± 0.30 | ||
Living alone | Yes | 3.20 ± 0.33 | 0.81 (0.439) |
No | 3.10 ± 0.32 | ||
Career of hospice nurse (yr) | ≤1 a | 3.14 ± 0.39 | 4.95 (0.003) b,c < d |
2–3 b | 3.07 ± 0.26 | ||
4–10 c | 3.07 ± 0.34 | ||
≥11 d | 3.27 ± 0.32 | ||
Hospice specialist nurse | Yes | 3.28 ± 0.32 | 2.06 (0.054) |
No | 3.28 ± 0.33 | ||
Job satisfaction | Dissatisfaction a | 2.91 ± 0.37 | 5.09 (0.007) a < c |
Moderate b | 3.10 ± 0.28 | ||
Satisfaction c | 3.23 ± 0.33 |
Categories | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
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β | t | p | β | t | p | β | t | p | β | t | p | |
Age (yr) | 0.17 | 10.33 | 0.185 | 0.14 | 1.19 | 0.237 | 0.08 | 0.68 | 0.495 | 0.06 | 0.53 | 0.599 |
Having religion (ref: no) | 0.17 | 10.92 | 0.057 | 0.13 | 1.54 | 0.127 | 0.14 | 10.80 | 0.074 | 0.15 | 20.10 | 0.037 |
Marital status (ref: no) | 0.09 | 0.92 | 0.360 | 0.04 | 0.45 | 0.656 | −0.04 | −0.50 | 0.620 | −0.03 | −0.37 | 0.713 |
Career of hospice nurse (yr) | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.959 | 0.05 | 0.44 | 0.662 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 0.914 | 0.02 | 0.16 | 0.876 |
Hospice specialist nurse (ref: no) | 0.07 | 0.93 | 0.353 | 0.03 | 0.39 | 0.694 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.427 | 0.05 | 0.76 | 0.451 |
Job satisfaction (ref: dissatisfaction) | ||||||||||||
moderate | 0.12 | 0.65 | 0.517 | 0.04 | 0.23 | 0.823 | −0.08 | −0.49 | 0.623 | −0.05 | −0.34 | 0.734 |
satisfaction | 0.23 | 10.21 | 0.229 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.871 | 0.12 | −0.69 | 0.494 | −0.08 | −0.47 | 0.640 |
ANCD | 0.35 | 4.43 | <0.001 | 0.13 | 10.56 | 0.122 | 0.18 | 20.17 | 0.032 | |||
NC | 0.49 | 50.60 | <0.001 | 0.51 | 60.06 | <0.001 | ||||||
ANCD × NC | 0.22 | 3.83 | 0.001 | |||||||||
R2 (ΔR2) | 0.148 | 0.243 (0.095) | 0.372 (0.129) | 0.413 (0.041) | ||||||||
F | 4.88 | 7.25 | 11.25 | 11.99 | ||||||||
p | (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (<0.001) |
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Seo, K. Moderating Effect of Nurse’s Character on the Relationship between Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care in South Korea. Healthcare 2021, 9, 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091195
Seo K. Moderating Effect of Nurse’s Character on the Relationship between Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care in South Korea. Healthcare. 2021; 9(9):1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091195
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeo, Kawoun. 2021. "Moderating Effect of Nurse’s Character on the Relationship between Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care in South Korea" Healthcare 9, no. 9: 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091195
APA StyleSeo, K. (2021). Moderating Effect of Nurse’s Character on the Relationship between Attitudes toward Nursing Care of the Dying and Performance of Terminal Care in South Korea. Healthcare, 9(9), 1195. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091195