How Views on Death and Time Perspectives Relate to Palliative Care Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Terminal Care?

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110552
Author(s):  
Akari Uno
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Terminal Care ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Attitudes ◽  
Attitude Inventory

This study’s purpose was to explore how palliative care nurses’ views on death and time perspectives are related to their terminal care attitudes. A questionnaire survey—consisting of the Death Attitude Inventory, Experiential Time Perspective Scale, and the Japanese version of the Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale—was administered to 300 individuals. Cluster analysis was conducted to categorize the way nurses perceive death, which revealed four types: Avoidant, middle, accepting, and indifferent. As a result of the analysis of variance on the terminal care attitudes, based on the types of views on death and time attitudes, it was found that the middle and accepting types, as well as the adaptive formation of time attitudes, were related to positive terminal care attitudes. In conclusion, more effective improvements in attitudes toward terminal care can be expected by incorporating time perspective, in addition to the conventional approaches focusing on death.

Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Future Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

scholarly journals Experience of symptom control, anxiety and associating factors in a palliative care unit evaluated with Support Team Assessment Schedule Japanese version

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Ito ◽  
Emi Tomizawa ◽  
Yuki Yano ◽  
Kiyozumi Takei ◽  
Naoko Takahashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Palliative Care Unit ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Patient Anxiety ◽  
Team Assessment ◽  
Support Team

AbstractVarious physical and psychosocial difficulties including anxiety affect cancer patients. Patient surroundings also have psychological effects on caregiving. Assessing the current status of palliative care intervention, specifically examining anxiety and its associated factors, is important to improve palliative care unit (PCU) patient quality of life (QOL). This study retrospectively assessed 199 patients admitted to a PCU during August 2018–June 2019. Data for symptom control, anxiety level, disease insight, and communication level obtained using Support Team Assessment Schedule Japanese version (STAS-J) were evaluated on admission and after 2 weeks. Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI) and laboratory data were collected at admission. Patient anxiety was significantly severer and more frequent in groups with severer functional impairment (p = 0.003) and those requiring symptom control (p = 0.006). Nevertheless, no relation was found between dyspnea and anxiety (p = 0.135). Patients with edema more frequently experienced anxiety (p = 0.068). Patient survival was significantly shorter when family anxiety was higher after 2 weeks (p = 0.021). Symptoms, edema, and disabilities in daily living correlate with patient anxiety. Dyspnea is associated with anxiety, but its emergence might be attributable mainly to physical factors in this population. Family members might sensitize changes reflecting worsened general conditions earlier than the patients.

scholarly journals Relationship of representations about the object of activity and time perspectives for teachers of different ages

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18079
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Zheldochenko ◽  
Oksana Nikolenko
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
The Individual

The article analyzes the problem of professionalization of the individual in pedagogical activity. The results of an empirical study of the ideas of teachers of different ages about the object of their professional activity are presented. It is shown that at each stage of professionalization, with an increase in the length of teaching experience, the assessment of the attitude to time changes, and through this – the assessment of the individual's attitude to the surrounding reality in General, as well as to himself, his experience and future prospects. Significant relationships between indicators of teachers ' perceptions of the object of professional activity and indicators of the time perspective of teachers of different ages are shown. The study involved 148 College teachers. Work experience varies from 1 year to 40 years. Age limits from 20 to 63 years. To confirm the research hypothesis that there may be significant relationships between professional ideas and time perspectives among teachers of different ages, we used a set of methods, including: "Questionnaire aimed at the study of ideas about the object of activity (E. I. Rogova)," F. Zimbardo's time perspective Questionnaire (ZTPI)". Methods of mathematical and statistical processing, presentation of the obtained data: descriptive statistics, determination of the reliability of differences: according to the Kruskal-Wallace criterion. Empirically, it is established that there are significant relationships between the assessment of attitudes to time and ideas about the object of activity in teachers of different ages.

scholarly journals Assessment of Physicochemical Properties of Tequila Brands: Authentication and Quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Carreon-Alvarez ◽  
Amaury Suárez-Gómez ◽  
Florentina Zurita ◽  
Sergio Gómez-Salazar ◽  
J. Felix Armando Soltero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Refractive Index ◽  
Physicochemical Properties ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Total Variability ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Physicochemical Data

Several physicochemical properties were measured in commercial tequila brands: conductivity, density, pH, sound velocity, viscosity, and refractive index. Physicochemical data were analyzed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), cluster analysis, and the one-way analysis of variance to identify the quality and authenticity of tequila brands. According to the Principal Component Analysis, the existence of 3 main components was identified, explaining the 87.76% of the total variability of physicochemical measurements. In general, all tequila brands appeared together in the plane of the first two principal components. In the cluster analysis, four groups showing similar characteristics were identified. In particular, one of the clusters contains some tequila brands that are not identified by the Regulatory Council of Tequila and do not meet the quality requirements established in the Mexican Official Standard 006. These tequila brands are characterized by having higher conductivity and density and lower viscosity and refractive index, determined by one-way analysis of variance. Therefore, these economical measurements, PCA, and cluster analysis can be used to determinate the authenticity of a tequila brand.

The attitude of the population to the development of palliative care in our country

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
E. E. Fokina
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Terminal State ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Current State

The article analyzes the respondents ‘attitude to the current state and development of palliative care in Russia. The study was carried out on the basis of a questionnaire survey. The author concludes that there is a low level of public awareness about the availability of palliative care and a low level of interest in this topic. At the same time, the majority of respondents consider it necessary to improve the provision of medical care to patients in a terminal state at the place of residence.

Influence of terror perceptions on individual investment behaviors: examining the moderating effects of present hedonic time perspective and consumer gender

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Yi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Investment Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Risky Investment ◽  
Financial Investments

PurposeThe argument that terror perception and individual time perspectives can affect behaviors has become increasingly relevant. This study analyzed the association of terror perception with financial risk and developed an integrated framework of the interaction between terror perception (mortality salience) and time perspective to determine risky investment. People with different time perspectives have different acknowledgments of risk. Two studies of terror perception leading to more or less risky investment choices supported this framework to demonstrate that individuals exhibit more (less) risky investment behavior when terror perception is salient and they have a high (low) present hedonic time perspective.Design/methodology/approachTwo experiments were performed. Study 1 tested whether TP moderates the effects of terror priming (aging) on risky financial investment. Study 2 tested the effects of terror priming on risky financial investment decisions and the role of gender and the present hedonic TP (PH) in moderating these effects. The following hypotheses were then developed: H1: Participants with high PH primed with the aging condition will select riskier financial investments than those with low PH will (Study 1). H2: Male participants with higher PH primed in the death condition will select riskier financial investments than those in the control condition will (Study 2).FindingsBecause people with different TPs acknowledge risk differently, this article developed a new framework modeling MS on TP in risky investment selection. Two studies representative of MS affecting risky investment decision-making were conducted to test the framework. The results of the two studies indicated that individuals engaged in risky investment behavior more (less) when mortality was salient and the individual had high (low) PH. Moreover, gender influences these results. As anticipated, male participants with higher PH in the death-primed condition selected riskier financial investment than those in the control condition did. Additional research from a broader perspective is warranted.Originality/valueMany psychological factors of risky decision-making have been discussed, such as motivational systems or situational motivation, self-framing, control orientation, sensation seeking, dishonesty, and ambiguity (Sekścińska et al., 2016). However, few studies have examined temporal framing, also known as time perspective (TP), the psychological concept of a person's relationship with time. This study mainly discusses the effects of terror perception on risky financial decisions by using a theoretical framework based on TP, which influences the effects of MS on risky financial decision-making. When mortality is made salient, individuals with present hedonic TP have behaviors characterized by risk perception. Those with present hedonic TP are more likely to make risky financial investments because they prefer present pleasure and risk over future outcomes (Zimbardo and Boyd, 2015).

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