A Qualitative Study of How Hospice Workers Cope With Their Level of Exposure to Death.

Objective: To identify whether hospice workers hold unique and theoretically-informative perspectives about death, especially as they relate to terror management processes.

Method: Twelve hospice workers from two hospices in Tucson, Arizona, United States, participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview and analytic practices were guided by Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).