ArticleBMC nursing2025
Mediating effect of moral resilience between good-death perception and coping with death competence of ICU nurses: a cross-sectional study.
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Abstract
backgroundMoral resilience can help Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses overcome moral dilemmas caused by the death of patients, while enhancing their competence to cope with death. Death-coping competence is also related to the cognitive level of nurses about good death. However, few studies have focused on the relationships among between moral resilience, perception of good death, and death-coping competence. RESEARCH
aimTo explore the focused on the relationships among ICU nurses’ moral resilience, good-death perception and death-coping competence, and to examine the mediating role of moral resilience between good-death perception and death-coping competence. RESEARCH
designThis was a quantitative study with a cross-sectional descriptive correlational design. The participants completed an online survey in which moral resilience, perception of good death and coping with death competence using the Rushton Moral Resilience Scale for nurses, Chinese version of Good Death Inventory and coping with death scale-short version, respectively. PARTICIPANTS AND RESEARCH CONTEXT: A total of 254 ICU nurses were recruited from five tertiary general hospitals in Shandong province of China to participate in the survey. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS: This study was approved by the ethics committee of Zibo Central Hospital. Informed consent was obtained from all the nurses.
resultsGood-death perception positively affects death-coping competence (r = 0.565, p < 0.01). The mediation analysis revealed that the direct effect of good-death perception on death-coping competence in the presence of the mediator was significant. Hence, moral resilience partially mediated the relationship between good-death perception and death-coping competence. And the mediating effect is 0.099.
conclusionsICU nurses’ good-death perceptions can directly predict their death-coping competence, and they can also indirectly affect their death-coping competence through the mediating effect of moral resilience. CLINICAL TRIAL NUMBER: not applicable.
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