@article{ref1, title="Comparative analysis of attitudes regarding student ambulance officers and rescue workers death and dying", journal="Orvosi hetilap", year="2015", author="Pék, Emese and Székely-Benke, Zoltán and Betlehem, Jozsef and Fullér, Noémi", volume="156", number="40", pages="1618-1624", abstract="INTRODUCTION: The emergency care staff witness the experience of dying and death on a daily basis.

AIM: The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the current and future ambulance personnel's fear of death and its influencing factors.

METHOD: Quantitative, cross-sectional comparative study was conducted including 106 participants (active rescue ambulance personnel, n = 45 persons; paramedic students, n = 61). A voluntary, anonymous questionnaire survey method (the Neimeyer-Moore Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale) was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using descriptive and mathematical statistical tests (T-test, analysis of variance).

RESULTS: The students had a greater fear in the "Fear for Significant Others" factor (p = 0.001). Students showed stronger fear who lived in cities, had higher educational qualifications, who where women (p = 0.036), singles (p = 0.046), those who have not seen a dying person (p = 0.017) and those who were never witnessed death. Greater fear characterized the ambulance personnel who were village residents, those living in a partnership (p = 0.027), those with lower educational level (p = 0.041) and those who had been working for a longer time.

CONCLUSIONS: There is no significant difference between the levels of fear of death of the present and future ambulance personnel. However, the practice-oriented education is very important and, training associated with death and dying should be integrated in the educational schedules of the paramedic students. Orv. Hetil., 2015, 156(40), 1618-1624.

Language: hu

", language="hu", issn="0030-6002", doi="10.1556/650.2015.30266", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/650.2015.30266" }