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Introduction: Aging is one of the most critical stages in the evolution of human life, and today one of the largest social groups in the world is older adults. Death anxiety is one of the most common disorders in the mental health field in old age, and the prevalence varies due to individual differences, social, environmental, and views on death. This study investigated death anxiety and related factors in Iranian older adults.
Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive analytical study. The statistical population in this study is all people aged ≥ 60 years in Iran, and online sampling was done through social networks using the available method for fifty-one days from July 1st to August 20th, 2021. The first part included a demographic questionnaire including age, marital status, place of residence, number of people in the house, province of residence, urban or rural, level of education, ethnicity, religion, and insurance. The second part of the questionnaire was about assessing the presence of death anxiety, and Templer's death anxiety questionnaire was used. The data was analyzed using T Test, ANOVA and regression using SPSS software version 22.
Results: The number of samples in this study was 1271 women and 1858 men, whose age range was between 60 and 80 years. The mean score in the death anxiety questionnaire was 8.5±3.44, and the results showed that 42.5% of the respondents had severe death anxiety, 40.7% had moderate anxiety, and 16.9% had mild anxiety. A significant difference (P
≤0.05) was observed between age, gender, marital status, accompanying people, employment, religion, insurance, and death anxiety, and no significant difference (P>0.05) was observed between the state of residence, urban or rural residence, education, and ethnicity with the death anxiety of older adults.
Discussion: The results of this national study demonstrated that death anxiety is a common phenomenon among Iranian older adults, which indicates the need to formulate solutions in the context of cyberspace to reduce this problem. |
| نویسندگان مقاله |
ایوب نافعی | Ayoub Nafei
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
جهاد دانشگاهی علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی (ACECR)، تهران، ایران.
وحید راشدی | Vahid Rashedi
Iranian Research Center on Aging, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
مرکز تحقیقات سالمندی، دانشگاه علوم توانبخشی و سلامت اجتماعی، تهران، ایران.
روناک غفوری | Ronak Ghafuri
Education Organization of District 9, Tehran, Iran.
وزارت آموزش و پرورش، منطقه 9، تهران، ایران.
ملیحه خلوتی | Maliheh Khalvati
Department of Social Work, Faculty of Paramedical, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
گروه آموزشی مددکاری اجتماعی، دانشکده علوم پیراپزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران.
ایوب اسلامیان | Ayoub Eslamian
Department of Social Work, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
گروه آموزشی مددکاری اجتماعی، دانشگاه علوم توانبخشی و سلامت اجتماعی، تهران، ایران.
دلینا شریفی | Sharifi Delina
Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
گروه کاردرمانی، دانشکده توانبخشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهیدبهشتی، تهران، ایران.
مرجان حقی | Marjan Haghi
Iranian Research Center on Aging, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
مرکز تحقیقات سالمندی، دانشگاه علوم توانبخشی و سلامت اجتماعی، تهران، ایران.
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