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To analyse the level of knowledge and attitudes concerning living wills of nurses working in three hospitals of Servizo Galego de Saúde (Spain).

Descriptive, cross-sectional, multi-centre study. Stratified sampling was carried out with nurses from the University Hospital Complexes of Ourense, Ferrol and Vigo. A sample size of 239 individuals was calculated. The data was collected during the first semester of 2018 using a validated self-administered questionnaire (“Cuestionario de conocimientos y actitudes de los profesionales sanitarios en el proceso de declaración de voluntades vitales”).

A total of 262 nurses participated. Fifty percent believe that health professionals are obliged to inform about living wills. Two percent consider that they have enough information on the subject, and this is demonstrated in the knowledge questions, where between 61–93% fail in the questions related to the …