2014/11/05 by Sedigheh Iranmanesh, Marjan Banazadeh, Mansoure Azizzadeh Forozy
Medicine · #Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life #Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare #Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
paper · doi:10.1177/1049909114556878
openalex publication_date 2014/11/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
OBJECTIVE: To determine pediatric nurses' perceptions of intensity, frequency occurrence, and magnitude score of selected barriers in providing pediatric end-of-life (EOL) care. METHOD: A translated modified version of National Survey of critical care Nurses' s Regarding End-of-Life Care questionnaire was used to assess 151 nurses' perceptions of intensity and frequency occurrence of barriers in caring for dying children. RESULTS: The highest/lowest perceived barriers magnitude scores were "families not accepting poor child prognosis" (5.04) and "continuing to provide advanced treatment to dying child because of financial benefits to the hospital" (2.19). CONCLUSION: More high perceived barriers by nurses were family-related issues. One of the possible causes of such deficiencies was lack of palliative care (PC) education/PC units in Iran. Thus, developing EOL/PC education may enhance nurses' knowledge/skill to face EOL care challenges.