Table 3.

Percentages of Highest and Lowest Scores of Items of Attitude and Knowledge Questionnaires

Variables	Subscales	Items with highest score	Percentage	Items with lowest score	Percentage
Attitudes towards PC	Principles of PC	One of the advantages of palliative care is improving the quality of life in patients and their families.	97.8	PC is different from conventional and traditional care.	3.6
	Patient’s autonomy	The patient should be allowed to participate in choosing treatment.	91.1	In case patients want to be informed, it is good to estimate for them how long they are likely to live.	20.3
	End-of-life care	Having religious beliefs similar to the patient's improves the care provision process.	81.81	In most cases, when the patient is dying, the family should be informed instead of the patient.	16.1
	Family participation in PC	Skills in speaking compassionately about death to a dying patient or a patient’s family should be developed and refined.	93.5	Providing care for the patient's family should continue in the time of grief and mourning.	78.1
Variables	Subscales	Most correct answers	Percentage	Most incorrect answers	Percentage
Knowledge of PC	Physical Symptom management	Anticholinergic drugs are effective in reducing respiratory discharge in patients at the end-of-life stage.	84.4	Morphine is effective in controlling shortness of breath.	69.2
	Pain management	People taking opioids should use laxatives.	83.2	While using morphine for long-term pain management, drug addiction needs to be taken seriously.	81.7
	Psychological symptom management	When delivering bad news to the patient, his/her concerns and perception of the disease should be asked.	92.1	Information should not be given to the patient or his/her family for it may increase their anxiety.	90.9
	General concept	Communication skills can be learned.	93.5	PC is the care terminated at the final stage of the disease.	35.7