The Effect of the Religious Attitudes on the Death Attitudes and Death Anxiety in Elderly Intensive Care Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study (original) (raw)
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Background: Negative death attitudes and death fear were reported at a high level among intensive care patients. Research indicates that nurses should know the factors affecting the death attitudes and death anxiety in intensive care patients to reduce these high levels of anxiety and negative attitudes. Religions have a strong relationship with death.Aim: This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the effect of religious attitudes on death attitudes and death anxiety in elderly intensive care patients.Methods: The data of the study were collected between January 2019 and January 2020 in the intensive care unit of a university hospital in a province located in the east of Turkey. A total of 185 elderly patients participated in the study. Patient Identification Form, Ok-Religious Attitude Scale (ORAS), the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and Death Attitudes Profile-Revised (DAP) were used for data collection. IBM SPSS version 25.0 was used for data analysis.Results: Most of the...
Research Paper: The Relationship Between Religious Attitudes and Death Anxiety in the Elderly People
Background: Late adulthood, as a sensitive life period of humans, requires unique attention. Elderly people are faced with challenging conditions, including death anxiety. This research aimed to investigate the relationship between religious attitudes and death anxiety in the elderly population of Gonabad City, South Khorasan Province, Iran. Methods: It was a cross-sectional and correlational study. The study sample included 200 adults older than 60 years. The sample is collected from the adult population of Gonabad City using the random sampling method. The obtained data were analyzed with G Power 3.0.10 software. The religious attitudes questionnaire of Khodayarifard et al. was used to evaluate four religiosity dimensions: religious convictions, affections, behaviors, and social pretensions. A high score in each subscale implies greater religiosity tendencies. The Templer questionnaire was also used to assess the anxiety of death. This questionnaire includes the fear of death; the fear of pain and disease; the thoughts of death, passing time, and shortening life; and the fear of the future. The data were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Spearman tests. Results: The religious attitudes were inversely correlated with death anxiety. This implies that the anxiety has decreased as religious attitudes have increased. This research showed a relationship between death anxiety and the population variables (education level, the source of revenue, etc.) This study also indicated a connection between religious attitudes and population variables (marital status, educational level, the source of revenue, lifestyle, and financial status). Conclusion: According to the present findings, a better religious approach could improve mental health and decrease death anxiety among elderly people.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2013
Death is beyond one's personal control, generates great concern and anxiety, among human beings. Studies exploring the association between religious attitudes and death attitudes in adolescents and young adults in postmodern society are scarce. This study examines the relationship between five dimensions of attitude toward death (fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acceptance, and escape acceptance), death anxiety, life satisfaction and meaning, religiosity and selected personal factors among health care staff and students in three teaching hospitals. A total of 230 adolescents and adults both sexes who were willing participated. Diener et al Satisfaction with Life, Steger et al Meaning of Life Questionnaire; Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, Wong's Death Attitude Profile-R and a religious attitude scale were administered. Findings showed students' search for meaning was higher than faculty. An unusual finding of higher Approach acceptance death attitude in students emerged. Correlation analysis revealed that presence of meaning was related to greater life satisfaction in both groups. It was further related to higher religiosity in both groups and higher neutral acceptance of death and lesser death anxiety in students alone. In both groups search for meaning was positively associated with death anxiety. Faculty's search for meaning was positively associated with negative death attitudes and surprisingly one positive death attitude. Death anxiety was more with faculty's advancing age, and was also more when both groups held negative death attitudes. Religiosity was positively associated with death anxiety in students. Further, religiosity was not only positively associated with positive death attitudes of approach acceptance (both groups) and neutral acceptance (faculty) but also with negative attitude of death avoidance (faculty). Death anxiety was more despite both groups embracing approach acceptance death attitude indicating ambivalent death views.
Attitude Toward Death and Associated Factors Among Nurses And Physicians: A cross-sectional study
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Background: Caring for terminally ill patients is a complicated task that challenges nurses and physicians with the psychological concerns and associated with a high level of physical and psychological discomfort among family, patients, and health care professionals. Aim: the aim of this study was to assess nurses' and physicians' attitudes towards death and end-of-life care, as well as to examine the correlations between nurses' and physicians' attitudes toward caring for dying patients and theirdemographic characteristics. Method: A total of 200 oncology nurses and physicians were recruited using a non-probability convenience sample from Jordanian specialized oncology hospital. All participants were invited to complete the questionnaire, which consisted of the demographic data sheet and Frommelt's Attitude toward Care of the Dying-B scale. Result: The majority of nurses and physicians have a positive attitude toward death (FATCOD=106.31). Furthermore, there are statistically signi cant associations between nurses' and physicians' gender, previous experience with terminally ill patients, years of working experience, previous education on death and dying, previous experience with loss, religious beliefs and attitude toward end-of-life care and death. Conclusion: End-of-life Care can provoke a wide range of inconvenient attitudes and feelings, which have a signi cant impact on the end-of-life care. Based on the study nding, more positive attitudes toward death were found among physicians and nurses with longer clinical experience in caring for terminally ill patients. Furthermore, death education and religious beliefs signi cantly in uence the death attitude of nurses and physicians.
Journal of religion and health, 2014
This study aims to assess the relationship between religious attitudes of Ilam universities students (west of Iran), their perspectives about the fear of self and other's death and dying, with their general health. This paper is an analytic survey in which 351 college students, who were selected by multistage sampling, participated. To measure interested variables, Persian format of standardized self-administered questionnaires was employed. Religious attitudes with odds ratio (OR) of 0.94 (95 % CI 0.91-0.97) and fear of self dying with 0.88 (95 % CI 0.81-0.96) were identified as a protective factors against the inappropriate general health condition. However, the fear of other's death (OR 1.16; 95 % CI 1.05-1.28) was identified as a risk factor. This study showed that people who had more religious attitudes and fear of self dying had better general health as well as the fear of other's death had a significant direct relationship with inappropriate general health condition.
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This study aims to compare attitudes toward death between university students who receive nursing education and who receive religious education. This study is cross-sectional in nature. It was conducted with the participation of 197 university students in a university located in the Eastern part of Turkey between June and August, 2017. Data were collected using the socio-demographic form and Turkish form of Death Attitudes Profile-Revised. Of all the students participating in the study, 52.8% received nursing education and 47.2% received religious education. It was found that majority of both groups had no education about death, or found the education they received insufficient. Besides, no significant differences were found between the students who received nursing education and who received religious education in terms of their attitudes toward death (p > 0.05). Results showed that students who received nursing education and who received religious education had similar attitude...
Although it is widely assumed that religiosity plays an important role in individuals’ attitudes about death, research to date has failed to reveal consistent associations between religiosity and death attitudes. Drawing from D. M. Wulff’s (1991) multidimensional model of religiosity, the authors examined associations between religious attitudes as measured by the Post-Critical Belief Scale and death attitudes as assessed by the Death Attitude Profile—Revised. In total, 471 Dutch-speaking Belgian adults completed both questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to asses the unique contribution of the religious attitudes in the prediction of the death attitudes. First, results show that religious people are more likely to endorse an approach acceptance attitude toward death, indicating that religiosity as such is related to belief in an afterlife. Second, people holding a literal attitude toward religion report more death anxiety, indicating that the processing of religious contents is related to defensiveness toward death. Finally, the specific combination of the two dimensions seems important in the prediction of a neutral acceptance attitude.
Relationship Between Death Anxiety of Turkish Nurses and Their Attitudes Toward the Dying Patients
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2019
This study aims to investigate the relationship between death anxiety of the Turkish nurses and their attitudes toward the dying patient. This study involved 203 nurses who were working at a university hospital. The data were collected using “Nurse Information Form” (which was prepared by the authors of this research), “Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale,” and “Attitude Scale about Euthanasia, Death, and Dying Patient.” There was a positive correlation between death anxiety and dying patient avoidance behavior and euthanasia score ( p < .05). The findings showed that nurses, death anxiety, and death scores were high in the loss of a close relatives ( p < .05). Our findings suggest that the situation of the dying patients and their families and also nurses should be improved. Thus, special psychological education/training should be given to the nurses to deal with death anxiety and their attitude to the dying patient.
Age, gender, and religiosity as related to death anxiety
2009
Western society has always been somewhat intrigued by death anxiety and its causes. In comparison, the study of death anxiety has not been given much importance in other cultures. Due to this, some interesting questions have risen such as: does death anxiety exist in other cultures? Do the same variables that seem to attenuate death anxiety in Western countries function as well for individuals in other cultures? Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the influence of religion, religious orientation, gender, and age on death anxiety in a culturally diverse country like Malaysia. There were 320 participants ranging in age from 17-70 years who took part in the study. It was hypothesized that a) participants with an affiliation to a religion would have lower death anxiety, b) a negative relationship between intrinsic religious orientation and death anxiety, and a positive relationship between extrinsic religious orientation and death anxiety would exist, c) female participants would have lower death anxiety, and d) death anxiety levels would not differ between young adults and older adults. A survey method was used in this study and participants were required to complete the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS) as well as the Age Universal Religious Orientation Scale. The results supported hypothesis c) and d). No significant negative relationship existed between intrinsic religious orientation and death anxiety, and no significant positive relationship existed between extrinsic religious orientation and death anxiety. Further research and implications are discussed.
Statement of problem: Older adults face many life‑threatening and disabling illnesses, which make them think more about their own mortal limit. One of the strategies they employ in coping with death attitudes is religious faith and spirituality beliefs. However, the ameliorating influence of religious orientation on personal death anxiety remains inconclusive. Aim: This study explored the association of religiosity and spirituality with fear of death and death acceptance attitudes in older adults. Method: a questionnaire was administered to 50 older persons from two Romanian counties. Hierarchical regression models were constructed for predictor variables and the outcomes of fear of death and approach acceptance of death attitudes. Results: Religiosity was significantly associated with the fear of death and approach acceptance of death attitudes. Demographic factors and spirituality did not play a significant contribution to the regression models.