Table 3 Personal views towards self-competence in death work among health and social care workers (n = 145)
Categories | Subcategories | N (%) |
|---|---|---|
(1) Personal resources | Feeling helpless and perceiving death work as challenging | 15 (10.34) |
Compassion | 15 (10.34) | |
Calmness and maturity | 10 (6.90) | |
Positive orientation | 5 (3.45) | |
Willingness to learn | 2 (1.38) | |
Grief experience | 2 (1.38) | |
(2) Existential challenges and coping | Accepting limits of human existence | 30 (20.69) |
Sense of meaningfulness in life | 17 (11.72) | |
Finding meaning and experiencing passion for their work | 13 (8.97) | |
Equality in relationship with patients | 9 (6.21) | |
Accepting inevitability of death | 7 (4.83) | |
Role of religion | 4 (2.76) | |
(3) Emotional challenges and coping | Inability of detaching themselves from emotions of clients after work | 6 (4.14) |
Inability of handling previous bereavement experience | 2 (1.38) | |
Self-care and maintaining good mental health | 1 (0.69) | |
(4) Personal recommendation | Administrative support/ resource allocation | 2 (1.38) |
Emotional regulation training and communication skill training | 2 (1.38) | |
Cultural change | 1 (0.69) | |
Euthanasia | 1 (0.69) | |
Promoting patient-centered care and advance care planning | 1 (0.69) |