Correlation among Knowledge, Attitude, and Self Efficacy of Professional Nurses in Facilitating Patients’ Advance Directive
Keywords:
Knowledge, Attitude, Self-Efficacy, Nurses, Advance DirectiveAbstract
The purposes of this descriptive correlational research were to study knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy of professional nurses in facilitating patients’ advance directive and to examine the correlation among those three variables. The 154 nurses were recruited. All sample nurses completed four questionnaires on demographic data, Health Care Provider’s Knowledge for Advanced Directive, Health Care Provider’s Attitude for Patients’ Advanced Directive, and Health Care Provider’s Self-Efficacy in facilitating patients’ advanced directive. The data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics and Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient.
The results revealed that the average score of nurses’ knowledge and attitude of advance directive was at a high level and the self-efficacy to facilitate patients’ advance directive score was at a moderate level. There was a significant relationship between knowledge and attitude of advance directive (r = .23, p < .05), attitude and self-efficacy to facilitate patients’ advance directive (r = .29, p < .05), but there was no significant relationship between knowledge and self-efficacy to facilitate patients’ advance directive (r = .07, p > .05). It was anticipated that the findings of this study could be used as baseline data for development of nursing competency in terminal care to ensure quality of life of end-stage patients and facilitating patients’ advance directive.
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