Resumen

FARFAN ROMERO, Carolina  y  FARFAN GARCIA, Ma. Del Carmen. Natural Semantic Network of Advance Directives Among Nursing Professionals. Psicumex [online]. 2025, vol.15, e696.  Epub 08-Ago-2025. ISSN 2007-5936.  https://doi.org/10.36793/psicumex.v15i1.696.

Scientific and technological advances in medicine impact on the prevention and improvement of health, increasing life expectancy. Given this, the advance directive arises, of a legal and medical nature, and its purpose is that the patient has the right to decide to die with dignity through natural processes. The objective of this study was to identify, through a semantic network, nursing professional perception of advance directives using non-experimental descriptive research and an intentional non-probabilistic sample of 63 nurses from three tertiary care hospitals located in Toluca and Mexico City. In the semantic network, 192 words were obtained, implying great richness. The 10 defining words with the highest values reflect the notion of advance directives as a free right of the patient to decide to die with dignity and indicate that the role of health personnel is one of respect and empathy.

Palabras llave : advance directive; nursing; semantic network; patient; health.

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