本研究主旨在探討死亡教育課程對護校學生死亡態度的影響，採用準實驗研究法。本研究以120位護校學生為研究對象，取樣自嘉義市某護校學生，一班為實驗組59人；另一班為控制組61人。實驗組學生接受十節課（每節五十分鐘）的死亡教育課程。控制組在實驗期間不接受任何處理。 本研究共使用二份死亡態度量表，包括死亡恐懼量表與死亡焦慮量表，及一份對死亡看法描述文之死亡構念分析為研究工具，採用「二因子混和設計變異分析」，以探討死亡教育課程對護生的影響。 本研究發現： 一、 死亡教育課程可以降低護校學生「死亡恐懼」及「恐懼自己死 亡」、「恐懼他人死亡」態度，且效果可以持續到四週之後。 二、 死亡教育課程可以降低護校學生「恐懼他人瀕死」態度，但未能持 續到四週之後。 三、 死亡教育課程對護校學生的「恐懼自己瀕死」及「死亡焦慮」態度 無顯著改變。 四、 死亡教育課程對護校學生之死亡構念具有積極正向之影響。 根據上述的研究發現，本研究提出進一步的討論與建議，以提供國內發展死亡教育之及未來研究之參考。 The purposes of this research were to design a death education program for vocational nursing students and to explore change in attitudes toward death. A quasi-experimental design was adopted. The subjects were120 students from the vocational of nursing school in Chia-Yi. One of the classes which composed the population constituted experimental group (N=59) and the other constituted the control group (N=61). The students of experimental group participated in a fifty- minute ten-session death education program conducted by this researcher and the control group did not receive any treatment during the study period. The data were acquired with two death attitude scales, the fear of death scale and death anxiety scale, and one of the analysis of death constructs for the participants' narration of ＂ the thoughts on death＂. The method of two way analysis of variance with mixed design had been used. The findings were as follows： 1. The death education program significantly reduced the nursing students' fear of death, fear death of self and fear death of others, the effects still maintained at the follow-up evaluation after four weeks of the course. 2. The death education program significantly reduced the nursing students' fear dying of others, the effects have not still maintained at the follow-up evaluation after four weeks of the course. 3. There was no significantly change in the nursing students' fear of self-dying and death anxiety. 4. On the participants' narration of ＂ the thoughts on death＂ for death constructs, the experimental group were more positive changes. The results were discussed, and several suggestions about the applications of this study were also discussed so as to provide a reference for the future researchers and practical applications.
