| subject | Secondary school students (n = 32) | junior college student (n = 126) | Undergraduate (n = 110) | χ2 | P |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
| 1) Know palliative care | 3 (9.38) | 68 (53.97) | 99 (90.00) | 78.652 | 0.00 |
| 2) Think about how to spend a time before the death | 6 (18.75) | 27 (1.05) | 36 (32.72) | 4.852 | 0.09 |
| 3) Think about how to spend the last time with a dying family | 8 (25.00) | 18 (14.29) | 16 (14.55) | 2.396 | 0.30 |
| 4) Talk to a family or a friend about how to face the topic of death | 1 (3.10) | 22 (17.46) | 28 (25.45) | 8.402 | 0.01 |
| 5) Spend the dying time with a loved one or a friend | 2 (6.25) | 9 (7.14) | 12 (10.91) | 1.314 | 0.52 |
| 6) Take part in nursing over deathbed patients | 5 (15.63) | 30 (23.81) | 44 (40.00) | 10.760 | 0.00 |
| 7) Discuss how to face death with a deathbed or family member | 0 (0.00) | 5 (3.97) | 7 (6.36) | 2.491 | 0.29 |
| 8) Differentiation of palliative care and hospice care | 0 (0.00) | 8 (6.35) | 26 (23.64) | 21.124 | 0.00 |
| 9) The importance of palliative nursing education | 13 (40.63) | 56 (44.44) | 90 (81.82) | 39.264 | 0.00 |
| 10) Willing to know the knowledge of palliative care | 26 (81.25) | 99 (78.57) | 106 (96.36) | 16.370 | 0.00 |
| 11) Palliative care is suitable for patients with malignant tumors | 15 (46.88) | 56 (44.44) | 92 (83.64) | 40.822 | 0.00 |
| 12) Religious belief | 0 (0.00) | 3 (2.38) | 1 (00.91) | 1.416 | 0.49 |