Opinions of cancer patients, nears and nurses related to death and good death

This study has been carried out to find out about the opinions of cancer patients, their relatives and nurses about death and good-death in a more descriptive and cross-sectional manner. The study has been conducted with 100 patients hospitalized in the adult and surgical clinics of Başkent University Hospital in Ankara together with 100 patients, their 100 companions, as well as 100 nurses working in these clinics. Research data was collected by using patient, patient relatives and nurse personel information form, ''Death Attitude Profiled-Revised'' and ''The Good Death Scale'' on between 15th July 2018 and 1st December 2018. Patients who had been undergoing cancer treatment for at least one year, who were over 18 years of age, who were literate and able to communicate verbally, who were volunteered to participate in the study were admitted to research. The patient relatives who meet the patient's care requirements while in hospital, who were over 18 years of age, who were literate and able to communicate verbally and who were willingness to participate in the study and the nurses with bachelor's degree who accepted to participatein the research created the sample. The nurses have defined the death as function interruption physically while the patients and patient relatives have defined the good death as living without suffering. While the point average between the good death scale and the death attitude profile scale of the patients who participated in the study is higher than the patient relatives and nurses; patients and patient relatives have better thoughts about the good death. In the study, it has been found that good death scale point average of the married nurses are higher than the single ones (p<0.05). A statistically significant relation has been found between the ages, genders, marital status of patients and the fear of death, death avoidance, acceptable approach and the total scores of DAP-R scale (p<0.05). The clinical sub-dimension scale average of the patients and patient relatives who want to die in the hospital has been found higher than the clinical sub-dimension scale average of the patients who want to die at home. As a result of our study, patients' views about good death were found to be more positive, fear of death and avoidance behaviors were lower and meaningful. Nurse have more fear of death and avoidance of death. Therefore, comprehensive care should be given to the end-of-life care of nurses. Keywords; Nursing, death, good-death, terminal period, cancer, attitude towards good-death