Data analysis
The questions concerning the need for a university inpatient hospice were analyzed descriptively, while open-ended questions were analyzed and categorized based on content by the first author (KD), both using SPSS software (v.25, SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL). All responses from the open-ended questions were first listed on a coding sheet to create tentative and broad-based categories. They were then sorted into meaningful categories and sub-categories and finally quantified using frequency counts to understand the underlying contextual use of the content [Transcribed interviews were analyzed similarly using inductive qualitative content analysis [As this study used a combination of a questionnaire and in-depth interviews, the responses from the questionnaire were analyzed first to get a better and in-depth understanding of the results. Themes emerging from the questionnaire and interviews were clustered according to common categories. Distinctive categories were also identified.Data were analyzed using MAXQDA 18 software [