ArticleWorld journal of psychiatry2025
Exploring the relationship between death anxiety and empathy among nursing students at an early stage of their clinical internships.
Article in World journal of psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The impact of death attitudes on death anxiety among nursing interns: a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Connectivity between ethical sensitivity and empathy ability of nursing students at the initial stage of internship: a bridge network analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundDeath anxiety is a common emotional response to death, and it varies in intensity across cultures and regions. However, there is a paucity of research on death anxiety among nursing students during their clinical internship, especially in relation to their emotional experiences and behavioral responses.
aimTo explore the relationship between empathy and death anxiety as well as to identify factors influencing students' empathetic skills during their initial clinical experiences.
methodsThis cross-sectional study included 473 nursing students enrolled from across vocational colleges in Quanzhou (Fujian Province, China) during June-July 2023. These students were trained at three Grade-A general hospitals. The Empathy Scale and Death Anxiety Scale were applied to assess their empathetic skills and death anxiety levels during the early stages of the clinical internship. Data analyses employed descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, independent sample
resultsThe mean death anxiety score was 46.33 ± 6.29, with 95.6% of participants exhibiting high death anxiety. The mean scores across dimensions were as follows: Cognitive-affective, 18.08 ± 3.15; pain and illness, 13.25 ± 2.41; awareness of the passage of time, 5.58 ± 1.40; stimuli related to death, 9.40 ± 1.56. The mean empathy score was 63.78 ± 11.49. Regression analysis revealed that students' subject major, total death anxiety level, and pain and stress dimensions acted as significant predictors of their empathetic skills during early clinical practice (
conclusionVocational nursing students, especially those in midwifery with higher death anxiety, exhibited lower empathetic skills during the early stages of their clinical internship. Nursing educators should take measures to enhance the empathetic skills of students through appropriate training and support for students with high death anxiety levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.