Chinese Localization The Professional End-of Life Care Attitude Scale And Its Employment During The Investigations In The Oncology Discipline Related Nurses Of First-class Hospitals In Zhejiang

Objective Chinesizing the Professional End-of-Life Care Attitude Scale and to evaluate it’s validity and reliability.To investigate hospice care status and level of apprehension of nurses of the oncology departments in three different3A hospitals, analyse possible factors relate to apprehensive level and examine the difference of apprehensive level among this three hospitals.Methods Nurses(N=201) of oncology units representing three hospitals were administered a posttranslational Professional End-of-Life Care Attitude Scale. Data analysis quantified total, personal, and professional apprehension levels and identified differences by education background, religion, post, gender, department, age and personal experience.The data were analyzed via SPSS17.0.Results Total PEAS scores possessed good internal consistency and reliability,with a Cronbach α=0.897and construct validity of Pearson’s r=0.9030.The construct validity shows that KMO value is0.702(>0.5), abstracting two common dimensions from the analysis and the Cumulative percentage of Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings of the two factors is24.884%.201nurses were administered a PEAS and184 respondents(91.5%) completed availably.Personal experience(mean=1.07,SD=3.15). personal apprehension level(mean=37.51,SD=5.40),professional apprehension level(mean=54.68,SD=7.09), showed no difference among this three hospitals.Both personal and professional apprehension scores were highly correlated with degree level(P<.05).The scores were higher for nurses with junior degree than nurses with senior degree.The different levels of the age,the title,the position are significantly relevant to the apprehension scores.Conclusion The utility of PEAS in evaluating the efficacy of palliative care apprehension is feasible to some extent, meanwhile further study and adjustment are needed. The nurses with senior degree were less apprehensive in contacting with end-life patients than the nurses with junior degree, although, all of them were deficiency of end-life care education.The findings suggest that higher nursing education should be promoted, meanwhile more professional exposure and training regarding the end-life care is in order.