A Questionnaire Study on the Attitude towards Death of the Nursing Interns in Eight Teaching Hospitals in Jiangsu, China

Table 1

Comparison of the attitude domains’ scores (mean ± standard deviation) between the norms and the nursing interns ().

Domain	Number of items	Domain score	Average item score	Rank	Norms [17]		-value
Natural acceptance	5	18.36 ± 2.62	3.67 ± 0.52	1	21.95 ± 2.90	−25.91	0.001
Death avoidance	5	14.94 ± 3.30	2.99 ± 0.66	2	11.10 ± 4.80	22.00	0.001
Fear of death	7	20.34 ± 3.98	2.90 ± 0.57	3	19.04 ± 6.58	6.204	0.001
Escape acceptance	10	13.64 ± 3.64	2.73 ± 0.73	4	15.05 ± 4.75	−7.31	0.001
Approach acceptance	5	26.18 ± 5.16	2.62 ± 0.52	5	24.20 ± 7.80	7.24	0.001