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This study is a transversal narrative survey of 179 Korean nursing college students to investigate the degree of spiritual well-being and attitude toward death and to identify the factors affecting their attitude toward death. The collected data were frequency analysis, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression using the SPSS 26 program. The results showed that men had higher existential well-being than women and were statistically significant (t = 2.385, p = 0.018). Spiritual well-being was the highest in Christianity and the lowest in Buddhism. Christianity (β = 0.239) has the greatest influence on their attitude toward death and among the independent variables, the existential well-being (β = 0.267). Five dummy variables and three independent variables explained the attitude toward death by 10.2% (F = 3.519, p = 0.001). Therefore, it is necessary to develop education programs and smart healthcare, including practical philosophical considerations, so that nursing college students can establish values to respond positively to death and improve spiritual well-being.
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Moon, WH., Yun, SY. (2022). Factors Affecting Attitudes Toward Death of Korean Nursing College Students; Including Spiritual Well-Being for Smart Healthcare. In: Pattnaik, P.K., Vaidya, A., Mohanty, S., Mohanty, S., Hol, A. (eds) Smart Healthcare Analytics: State of the Art. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 213. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5304-9_12
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