Death and dying according to nursing students' representations

This is a qualitative study whose objective was to know the representations of the Federal University of São Paulo's undergraduate Nursing students on the questions that involve death and dying. The subjects were 40 students, males and females, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the undergraduate...

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Published in:Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P 2007-09, Vol.41 (3), p.386
Main Authors: de Oliveira, José Rodrigo, Brêtas, José Roberto da Silva, Yamaguti, Lie
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Death
Female
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Students, Nursing
Thanatology
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Summary:This is a qualitative study whose objective was to know the representations of the Federal University of São Paulo's undergraduate Nursing students on the questions that involve death and dying. The subjects were 40 students, males and females, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the undergraduate course in Nursing. As a methodology were used the assumptions of the Social Representations, using the technique of an interview with two non-structured guiding questions. The results of this study were organized and placed on a maximum tree having as the representation's central nucleus the event death and as the most important peripheral representations concepts, fear of death and relationship pupil-patient.
ISSN:0080-6234
DOI:10.1590/S0080-62342007000300007