Reduction in Nurses' Death Anxiety Following a Death Awareness Workshop

The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of a death awareness workshop on the death anxiety of 150 registered nurses. This quasi-experimental design used two groups of subjects. One group experienced the workshop while the other did not and served as a control group. Templer's Death Anxiety Scale was used to measure the dependent variable. The results indicate that the workshop did decrease the nurses' death anxiety. The discussion of the findings and recommendations for further study are presented.