The Swedish version of the frommelt attitude toward care of the dying scale: Aspects of validity and factors influencing nurses' and nursing students' attitudes

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Henoch, Ingela ^a   Browall, Maria ^b,c   Melin Johansson, Christina ^d   Danielson, Ella ^a,d   Udo, Camilla ^d   Sundler, Annelie Johansson ^c   Björk, Maria ^c   Ek, Kristina ^c   Hammarlund, Kina ^c   Bergh, Ingrid ^c   Strang, Susann ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^d MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Angered Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dying patients; FATCOD; Nurses; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; FROMMELT ATTITUDE TOWARD CARE OF THE DYING SCALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN;

EID: 84890555647     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e318279106b     Document Type: Article

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