The Mmogo-Method: Application, Experiences, and Lessons Learnt in Researching Radiography Students' Experiences and Coping With Death and Dying

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364
Author(s):  
Riaan van de Venter ◽  
Penelope Engel-Hills ◽  
Louise Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Coping With Death

O enfrentamento da doença e da morte: As diferentes faces de Jesus como recurso terapêutico

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Coping With Illness ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
Coping With Death

This books presents an analysis of different faces of Christ displayed in Catholic Churches in different continents and countries and the relationship that this face can maintain with the health-disease process and coping with death and dying. It proposes to establish a reflection with people who are in this situation or in providing care to them, whether in the professional or personal and family modalities. It is divided into two parts, the first containing the description and analysis of the iconography of the Jesus faces and the second with proposals for their insertion in the daily life, coping with illness and the reality of death

scholarly journals Coping with death and awareness of mortality in patients and their relatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Vladimir Littva ◽  
Anna Kralova
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
The Individual ◽  
End Stage ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Coping With Death

The aim of our study was to analyze the attitudes of people – patients and their relatives in proximity of death and dying. End-stage of human life is often associated with changes in the scale of values and needs of the individual. Particular attention was paid to the needs and values that are associated with recognition of limitations concerning to earthly life, but also with the hope of eternal life. Generally, people think that the feelings and coping with death and dying are same in patients and their relatives. The truth is that coping with death and mortality is individual to each person. The problems related to the dying should be coped with by all: dying patients, their relatives and friends. Dying is not letting cold those who are in the presence of dying. In our study we used Acceptation of Dying and Coping with Mortality Questionnaire – 20 Items (ADCMQ20). Research sample consisted of 275 respondents: 95 dying patients and 180 their relatives. All data were processed by SPSS 24 statistical program.

Gaming and Grieving: Digital Games as Means of Confronting and Coping with Death

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-346
Author(s):  
Beverley Foulks McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Air Bubble ◽  
Mountainous Landscapes ◽  
Game Environment ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Coping With Death

Abstract This paper explores structural similarities between playing a digital game and experiencing grief. The digital game Mandagon evokes a sense of loss through its game environment of grey mountainous landscapes, broken wooden scaffolds, and Tibetan temples and prayer flags in states of disrepair. It elicits feelings of disorientation and dependency as players repeatedly fall from scaffolds but ascend by using lifts or finding air bubble streams underwater. It encompasses terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings as players move through air, land, and water, as they neither inhabit nor encounter a human body, and they cross various cosmic thresholds through the course of the game. For players struggling with grief, it validates and normalizes feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and vulnerability in the wake of death and loss.

scholarly journals Hospice Employees’ Perceptions of Their Work Environment: A Focus Group Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca H. Lehto ◽  
Carrie Heeter ◽  
Jeffrey Forman ◽  
Tait Shanafelt ◽  
Arif Kamal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Hospice Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Hospice Workers ◽  
And Coping

Burnout in healthcare professionals can lead to adverse effects on physical and mental health, lower quality of care, and workforce shortages as employees leave the profession. Hospice professionals are thought to be at particularly high risk for burnout. The purpose of the study was to evaluate workplace perceptions of interdisciplinary hospice care workers who provide care to patients at end of life. Six focus groups and one semi-structured interview were conducted with mixed group of social workers, managers, nurses, hospice aides, chaplains, support staff, and a physician (n = 19). Findings from the groups depicted both rewards and challenges of hospice caregiving. Benefits included intrinsic satisfaction from the work, receiving positive patient and family feedback, and teamwork. Challenges reflected issues with workload, technology issues, administrative demands, travel-related problems, communication and interruptions, difficulties with taking time off from work and maintaining work-life integration, and coping with witnessing grief/loss. Hospice workers glean satisfaction from making meaningful differences in the lives of patients with terminal illness and their family members. It is an expected part of the job that certain patients and situations are particularly distressing; team support and targeted grief support is available for those times. Participants indicated that workload and administrative demands rather than dealing with death and dying were the biggest contributors to burnout. Participants reported episodic symptoms of burnout followed by deliberate steps to alleviate these symptoms. Notably, for all except one of the participants, burnout was cyclical. Symptoms would begin, they would take steps to deal with it (e.g., taking a mental health day), and they recovered. At an organizational level, a multipronged approach that includes both personal and occupational strategies is needed to support professional caregivers and help mitigate the stressors associated with hospice work.

scholarly journals Planning and development of empathic educational pedagogical practice in the process of death and dying: A pilot test

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Neide Da Silva Knihs ◽  
Juliana Balbinot Reis Girondi ◽  
Keyla Cristiane Do Nascimento ◽  
Lúcia Nazareth Amante ◽  
Maria Ligia dos Reis Bellaguarda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
And Coping

Objective: To describe the process of developing an Empathic Educational Pedagogical Practice on the process of death and dying with nursing students.Methods: Cross-sectional study, carried out in a public university with 47 students. For the development of this educational practice, low-cost materials elaborated by the professors themselves were used. A pilot test was developed with students from the fifth phase of the nursing course, where these students had the opportunity to dive into the context of empathy, besides developing communication, welcoming and active listening skills. The students' feelings towards the development of this practice were also identified. For data collection, a semi-structured questionnaire was used, with analysis using simple descriptive statistics and content analysis.Results: The students had the opportunity to experience stages related to the process of death and dying, which involve the news of palliative care; communication of death and coping with the grieving process. As for the feelings before death, the following emerged: fear, emptiness, sadness, end. In the skills, the students scored the development of active listening (100%), identification of the different stages of mourning (85.5%) and the ability to empathize with situations of death and dying (100%). 85% of the students considered it an excellent pedagogical strategy.Conclusion and implications for practice: The pedagogical practice allowed the experience of empathy, identification of feelings and the compression of the scenario of death and dying. In addition, it was interpreted by professors and students as a tool capable of supporting future professionals who will develop health care for people who experience the process of death and dying.

Bugen's Coping with Death Scale: Reliability and Further Validation

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary A. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Organ Donor ◽  
Organ Donors ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Scale Reliability ◽  
Convergent Validation ◽  
Coping With Death

Bugen's Coping with Death Scale, originally found to reflect gains in a death and dying seminar, was found in the present study to be internally consistent and stable on retest. It was negatively associated with the Templer and Collett-Lester scales, providing some convergent validation. It was not associated with Social Desirability but was associated with general anxiety; thus, discriminant validity was mixed. Individuals who had written wills, planned estates, planned their funerals, and signed organ donor cards scored higher on the Coping with Death Scale. Organ donors also reported less anxiety on the Templer and all four Collett-Lester scales. Since Coping with Death scores were more consistently different in those who prepare for death, this scale may help in efforts to predict those who will engage in such behaviors.

scholarly journals A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PERCEPTION ON DEATH AND DYING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS IN SELECTED COLLEGES OF NURSING IN UDUPI DISTRICT, KARNATAKA STATE

2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Preethy Jawahar ◽  
Soumya Alex ◽  
Anice George
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Tension Headache ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Karnataka State ◽  
Colleges Of Nursing ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Abstract Objective: The objectives of the study were assess nursing students perception on death and dying and to identify the perception on death and dying among nursing students of different levels. Materials and Methods: A descriptive survey design was used. Data were collected from 210 nursing students in selected Colleges of Nursing in Udupi district, Karnataka state by using semi structured questionnaire. Result: Thoughts: while caring dying patients and their families, 66.6% perceived thoughts regarding the physical, emotional, spiritual care given to patients who were dying and 77.6% regarding their family or friends. 57.1% perceived thoughts regarding their sufferings, 88% perceived thoughts about a realization that death is a part of life, 29.5% perceived thoughts about the survival and 42.8% perceived that being able to care for dying patients as a privilege and it is an opportunity to work with those who are going through the dying process. Feelings: 40.5% nursing students had physiological symptoms like nausea, muscle tension, headache, 53.8% had fear, 68.5% developed compassion, 86.6% had sadness and 46.2% developed anxiety while caring for dying patients and their families. Challenges: 67.1% of nursing students unaware about how to communicate with unresponsive patient, 61.9% expressed they had language barrier and 71.4% developed problems related to severe emotions while caring dying patients and their families. Conclusion: There is a great need to educate students about death and dying, cultural competence, communication skills and coping with emotional stress.

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