The training effects of a continuing education program on nurses’ knowledge and attitudes to palliative care: a cross sectional study

Table 2 The knowledge of palliative care and attitudes toward care of the dying among all nurses

Questionnaires	Mean (SD)
Total PCQN score^a	8.79 (2.79)
Category 1: Philosophy and principles	1.21 (0.96)
Category 2: Psychosocial aspects	0.50 (0.67)
Category 3: Control of pain and other symptoms	7.08 (2.21)
Total FATCOD-B-C score^b	103.62 (11.07)
Subset 1. Attitude toward the interests of dying person	22.88 (3.36)
Subset 2. Attitude toward caring for the dying person	20.91 (4.01)
Subset 3. Attitude toward the necessity of family support	17.67 (1.64)
Subset 4. Attitude toward communication with dying person	13.18 (2.85)
Subset 5. Attitude toward fear of caring of dying person	9.30 (2.78)
Subset 6. Attitude toward caring for dying person’s families	16.42 (2.34)

PCQN Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (Chinese version). FATCOD-B-C, the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying scale (Chinese version)
^aThe full list of PCQN questions with all categories can be found in Supplementary table 1
^bThe full list of FATCOD-B-C with all subsets can be found in Supplementary table 2

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