Background: The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and\nTelecommunications announced that the proportion of elderly people aged\n65 or over in the total population of Japan reached a record high of 26.7%\nin the present Japan. Aims: This paper aimed to clarify from acute ward\nnursesâ?? concepts of life and death in Japan. Methods: Questionnaires were\ndistributed to 720 nurses working in acute care hospital A in the Kansai\narea in Japan. Distribution destinations were all wards except for operating\nrooms and outpatient clinics. We initially classified the 27 items from Hirai\net al. â??s death and life scale into the initial seven factors (via promax rotation).\nOperational Definition: In my analysis, I relied considerably on the was 0.8, which was the result obtained during initial scale validity\nchecks. The present analysis led to the extraction of 4 factors with eigenvalues\ngreater than 1, with a cumulative contribution rate of 62.8%. Consideration:\nThe first factor comprised all subscales except for the â??death\navoidanceâ? subscale, which fit better within the fourth factor. These factors\nincluded â??A comprehensive view of life and deathâ? â??Sharing the fate of\ndeath and liberationâ? â??Death fear, anxiety, and avoidanceâ?, and â??Liberation\nfrom life and a world after deathâ?.\nseven-point Likert scale of the Concept of life and death. Ethical Considerations:\nThe present study was approved by the Tottori University Ethics\nReview Committee (1603 A 156). Results: The initial factor analysis revealed\nthat 10 of the 27 items were inadequate. Thus, a second analysis was\nconducted on the remaining 17 items. The KMO analysis produced a value\nof 0.8. A Bartlettâ??s test produced a significant result (p < 0.001), and Cronbachâ??s
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