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Death anxiety and death competency: the impact of a palliative care volunteer training program

Claxton-Oldfield, Stephen, Crain, Maggie, Claxton-Oldfield, Jane·2007·American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
DOI 10.1177/1049909106294882
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Before and immediately after the 2 most recent offerings of a local palliative care volunteer training program, 17 participants completed the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and Bugen's Coping with Death Scale. The training program consisted of approximately 27 hours of training presented in 3-hour blocks during a 9-week period. Topics included the philosophy and goals of palliative care, spiritual issues from a multi-cultural and multifaith perspective, communication, the dying process, grief and bereavement, and the role of the volunteer. The results showed no differences in participants' pretraining and posttraining scores on the 4 subscales of the Fear of Death Scale. However, participants felt significantly more able to cope with death and dying after the training program than before. With proper training, volunteers will feel more prepared to handle situations involving terminal illness and death. In short, they will be more effective in their work with dying patients and their families.

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  • Many patients with cancer found it difficult to talk to family members about their fears and anxiety because their families were also suffering and the patient did not want to upset them.

    “Many patients with cancer found that it was difficult to talk to family members about their fears and anxiety because their families were also suffering, and the patient did not want to upset them.27”

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Authors
Claxton-Oldfield, S., Crain, M., & Claxton-Oldfield, J.
Affiliations
  • Mount Allison University (CA)
  • Psychology Department, Tantramar Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Corresponding author
Claxton-Oldfield, Stephen
ORCID
Claxton-Oldfield, Stephen
Venue
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2007-12
Volume
23
Issue
6
Pages
464-468
ISSN
  • 1049-9091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1938-2715
DOI
10.1177/1049909106294882
OpenAlex
W2036460875
Cited by
67
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
FWCI
2.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Keywords
fear of death, palliative care volunteers, volunteer training programs, coping with death, terminal illness, dying, grief and bereavement, spiritual care, communication with dying patients
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Anxiety, Attitude to Death, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Middle Aged, New Brunswick, Palliative Care, Prospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Volunteers

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