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The attitude of helping workers in hospice facility to death and their way of handling stress.
ŠANDEROVÁ, Romana
The bachelor thesis deals with attitudes to death among helping professionals in the hospice centres and their way of coping with stress. The theoretical part consists of four main chapters. The first chapter is purely devoted to attitudes towards death, where terms such as attitude or death are described. Briefly outlined is how death guides us through life and also the taboo of death issue is mentioned. The second chapter focuses on palliative care. What is the definition, how is it provided, who provides it and at the end of this chapter I mentioned the resources of palliative care. The third chapter deals directly with the hospice facility and the hospice care itself. It introduces the hospice movement, the first Czech experience with hospice facilities and the service workers of palliative and hospice care. The last chapter is about coping with stress, where the symptoms of stress, burnout and coping strategies are described. In the research part of the thesis a qualitative research is used, which is based on semi-structured interviews from 6 employees in a selected hospice facility. The main research question is following: 'What are the attitudes to death among helping workers in the selected hospice centre and what is their way of coping with stress? "

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