Table 2:

Attitude of the care providers on providing perinatal palliative care in the selected training hospitals at Tehran at 2019 (n=390).

Items	Agree		No comment		Disagree
	Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage
It is necessary that parents be involved on decision making for the type of their neonate’s treatment	353	90.5	23	5.9	14	3.6
When the early death of the neonate is predicted, decline in neonate’s pain is preferred rather than other cares.	329	84.4	31	7.9	30	7.7
It is needed that palliative care to be a necessary part in the study course of nursery	310	79.5	33	8.5	47	12.1
It is needed that palliative care to be a necessary part of study course of medicine	332	85.1	25	6.4	33	8.5
When a neonate is expired in the ward, care providers should allocate sufficient time to talk with his/her family	366	93.8	15	3.8	9	2.3
It is required that health-care team state their comments, values and believes on perinatal palliative care.	325	84.1	28	7.2	34	8.7
It is necessary to provide trainings on communicating with and support neonates’ parents in final stages of life for care providers	329	84.4	28	7.2	33	8.5
When a neonate dies, the conditions should be provided for care providers to provide consulting services	322	82.6	34	8.7	34	8.7
Physical environment of NICUs is appropriate to provide palliative cares	114	29.2	108	27.7	168	43.1
In intensive care units, there are sufficient personnel to perform perinatal palliative care	89	28.8	175	44.9	126	32.3
Perinatal palliative care is inconsistent with the values of neonates care	111	28.5	132	33.8	147	37.7
The neonate must not die under any circumstances	115	29.5	169	43.3	106	27.2

NICU: Neonatal intensive care unit