TY - JOUR TI - The impact of a faith-based end-of-life care education program on decision-making in an African American religious community DO - https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-nen0-4m80 PY - 2019 AB - Palliative care services aim to anticipate, prevent, and treat symptoms associated with life-threatening diseases. However, research has shown African Americans are less likely to engage in end of life services when compared to their non-African American counterparts. The purpose of this project was to assess end of life knowledge of African Americans, assess African Americans' ability to make an informed decision regarding the end-of-life care, provide a faith-based end of life education session, and evaluate its effectiveness. Imogene King's general system framework was used to structure and guide this project. A demographic survey and evidence-based tools were administered before the intervention and immediately following and two weeks after the intervention. A Friedman test was used to analyze change over time with pre and posttests 1 and 2, which showed a significance level of (p<0.01). Results indicate there were an overall increase in the mean PaCKS scores after the educational session. KW - Family Nurse Practitioner KW - Palliative treatment KW - Terminal care KW - African Americans -- Medical care LA - English ER -