Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Death Education Programs for Nurses and Students

Thirteen studies involving 1,142 participants were analyzed in this systematic review and meta-analysis authored by Fan Sun and published in 2026. It evaluates the effects of death education programs on nurses' and nursing students' end-of-life care competence and attitudes toward death. The review synthesizes evidence from randomized and controlled clinical trials published between 2014 and 2025.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the efficacy of death education programs based on the meta-analysis of 13 studies.
• Comparing online versus in-person training outcomes based on subgroup analysis results.
• Assessing the impact on end-of-life care competence based on the reported standardized mean difference.
• Identifying research gaps for future studies based on noted limitations like high risk of bias and lack of long-term follow-up.

Strengths

• Includes a meta-analysis of 13 studies with 1,142 total participants.
• Performed subgroup and sensitivity analyses to test result robustness.
• Assessed evidence certainty using the GRADE framework.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Most included studies had a high risk of bias, and only 3 out of 13 included follow-up assessments.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and controlled clinical trials.

Time Range

Studies published between 2014 and 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 04:41:10; freshness should be verified.