Exploring the relationship between death anxiety and empathy among nursing students at an early stage of their clinical internships

Table 4 Cross-major differences in empathy and death anxiety among students, mean ± SD

Factors	Nursing	Midwifery	t value	P value
The total of empathy scores	64.73 ± 11.59	61.48 ± 10.94	2.817	0.005
Attitude choice	31.99 ± 6.61	30.20 ± 5.99	2.877	0.004
Empathic care	27.04 ± 5.09	26.12 ± 5.12	1.784	0.075
Being in patients’ shoes	5.70 ± 3.19	5.17 ± 2.88	1.770	0.078
The total of death anxiety scores	46.02 ± 6.42	47.06 ± 5.94	-1.627	0.104
Cognitive-affective	17.86 ± 3.11	18.62 ± 3.19	-2.397	0.017
Pain and illness	13.19 ± 2.46	13.42 ± 2.30	-0.963	0.336
Awareness of time passing	5.62 ± 1.40	5.49 ± 1.42	0.903	0.367
Stimuli related to death	9.36 ± 1.54	9.52 ± 1.60	-1.055	0.292