THE NURSE’S CHARACTERISTICS IN END OF LIFE CARE ACCORDING TO BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This research has three objectives; 1) to study the nurse’s characteristics on end of life care according to Buddhist psychology 2) to construct causal relationship model of the nurse on end of life care according to Buddhist psychology 3) to test the validity and present the causal relationship model of nurse’s characteristics on end of life care according to Buddhist psychology.  

It was the mixed research method between quantitative and qualitative research. The key informants were the experts Buddhists, psychologists, administrators in a small organization selected by purposive sampling, 9 key informants. The sample used in the quantitative research was a purposive sampling, 400 participants. The instruments used in the research comprised of the questions for interviewing and a questionnaire. The quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, the correlation was analyzed by a package program, the consistency between model and the empirical data was analyzed by LISREL program. The results found that causal relationship model of the nurse on end of life care according to Buddhist psychology accords to the empirical data. Chi-square was 103.91, degree of freedom (df) was 83, probability (p) was .060, goodness of fit index (GFI) was .97, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) was .59, and root mean square error of approximation was .025. The variance of Buddhist psychological nursing was 49.00.