Bleeker J A, Pomerantz H B
Med Educ. 1979 Mar;13(2):117-28. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1979.tb00933.x.
In this study the results of a questionnaire administered to medical students attending a lecture course on loss and grief are analysed. The focus of the inquiry was to determine whether attitudes towards death, dying and loss could be influenced by confrontation with factual information on bereavement. The results showed that the original idealized attitudes underwent a reality correction due to increased factual knowledge of bereavement processes. The defensive attitudes of students who experienced death in their family during the course are discussed. Intensity and temporality of one's involvement with death appear to be a determining factor in the formation of attitudes towards death. Typical male and female attitudes are also presented. It is concluded that the institutionalization of education in bereavement processes should receive priority in medical programmes and that the classical lecture deserves its place therein.
在本研究中，对参加关于丧失与悲痛讲座课程的医学生所做问卷调查的结果进行了分析。调查重点是确定面对有关丧亲之痛的事实信息时，对死亡、临终和丧失的态度是否会受到影响。结果显示，由于对丧亲过程的事实性知识增加，最初理想化的态度经历了现实修正。讨论了在课程期间家中有人去世的学生的防御性态度。一个人与死亡接触的强度和时间似乎是形成对死亡态度的决定性因素。还呈现了典型的男性和女性态度。得出的结论是，丧亲过程教育的制度化应在医学课程中优先得到重视，传统讲座在其中应占有一席之地。
