Yildirim Gulay, Işık Meryem Türkan, Yalcin Sibel Oner
Department of History and Ethics, Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversty, Sivas, Turkey.
Faculty of Nursing, Fundamental Nursing Department, Mersin University, Turkey.
Omega (Westport). 2025 Aug;91(3):1348-1367. doi: 10.1177/00302228231153712. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
We aimed to determine the relationship between the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards futile treatment and their approach to death and terminally ill patients. We collected the data from nurses-physicians working in the intensive care unit, using the Nurses' Attitudes towards Futile Treatment Scale (NAFTS) and Approach to Death and Dying Patients Attitude Scale (ADDPAS). Avoidant attitudes displayed towards death and terminally ill patients increase as futile treatment is administered more. Health workers who work in the intensive care unit and witness futile treatment more frequently in the clinic are of the opinion that futile treatment should not be performed.
我们旨在确定医疗保健专业人员对无效治疗的态度与其对待死亡和绝症患者的方式之间的关系。我们使用护士对无效治疗的态度量表（NAFTS）和对待死亡及临终患者的态度量表（ADDPAS），从重症监护病房工作的护士和医生那里收集数据。随着无效治疗的实施增多，对死亡和绝症患者表现出的回避态度也会增加。在重症监护病房工作且在临床中更频繁目睹无效治疗的医护人员认为不应进行无效治疗。
