Analysis and thinking of the important role of death education in the care of cancer patients
ZHANG Hui-lan
ZHENG Wen-hong
LUO Yu
Abstract：The paper summed up the key problems of death education in the care of cancer patients.It pointed out that death education plays an important role in helping cancer patients to face life and death,alleviating negative psychological emotions such as fear and anxiety,improving the quality of death,promoting medical staff to understand the needs of cancer patients and relieving the contradictions between doctors and patients.It then further discussed and analyzed factors hindering the development of death education in China,including traditional death culture,family,medical environment and social organization.Based on this,it proposed that China should increase death education propaganda actively,strengthen knowledge training among medical staff,support and encourage social organizations to build a scientific cooperation system which includes doctors,nurses and patients,so as to help more cancer patients find confidence in life and integrate into the society.
Keywords：death educationcancerquality of deathpalliative carehospice care
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 180-184 )