Estratégias de Coping dos estudantes da graduação em enfermagem no processo morte e morrer

Abstract

Introduction: Attitudes towards stressors characterize certain ways of facing and overcoming situations of suffering. The strategies used for this confrontation are called coping. This research proposal will have as its object of study the Coping Strategies reported by undergraduate nursing students when facing the process of death and dying. Proposing the following guiding question: What are the Coping Strategies reported by undergraduate nursing students when facing the process of death and dying? Objective: To know the Coping Strategies reported by undergraduate nursing students when facing the process of death and dying. Methodology: This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. It was carried out with nursing students from a federal university in northeastern Brazil, who were in the tenth period of the undergraduate nursing course. The information was collected in January 2025, through a semi-structured interview, after the approval of this project by the Research Ethics Committee. Data analysis and interpretation were supported by the Iramuteq software, and content analysis was subsequently performed according to Bardin, associated with the Adaptation of the Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategies Inventory. Results: Coping strategies were reported to be directed toward distancing and emotional repression in order to prioritize support for others and justify death, reducing guilt, the need to solve problems through theoretical and spiritual knowledge, the acceptance of the death process as an inevitable event, and, mainly, the relationship with past personal experiences. Conclusion: Given the above, the influence of personal, cultural, and spiritual perceptions is clear, and may or may not contribute to care conduct, as they are predictors of how each individual will face the process of death and dying in a particular way. However, the gap in academic training does not contribute to professional and even personal development, since there is a superficial approach to the topic.