Death anxiety (Thanatophobia) among drug dependents in an Arabic psychiatric hospital

Daradkeh, Fares; Moselhy, Hamdy F.

doi:10.3109/00952990.2010.546923

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“…Although Daradkeh stated that it increases considerably the death anxiety level [42], we found no difference in death anxiety between smokers and nonsmokers (p>0.05).…”

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Assessment of depression and death anxiety level in diabetic patients in Eskisehir, Turkey

Doğan

Arslantaş

Ünsal

2015

Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries

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This study was carried out in order to determine the levels of depression and death anxiety in diabetic patients and to examine the relationship between depression and death anxiety. The current study is a descriptive study carried on diabetic patients having inpatient treatment in the Internal Diseases Service of Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Medical Faculty Hospital, between 2 January and 29 June 2012. The hospital anxiety and depression scale and Templer death anxiety scale are used, respectively, for the assessment of depression and anxiety and the assessment of death anxiety level in this study. Thirty-two patients (40.0 %) are male and 48 patients (60.0 %) are female. Of the patients, 51.2 % (n=41) and 36.3 % (n=29) are determined to have depression and anxiety, respectively. Death anxiety level is determined to be higher in women and the ones at primary school level and below (p<0.05 for each). A positive relationship is found between disease level and death anxiety level (r s =0.239; p= 0.033). A positive relationship is found between anxiety level and death anxiety level of the ones in the study group (r s = 0.256; p=0.022). Death anxiety and depression are important medical problems in diabetic patients. It was seen that death anxiety increases as long as anxiety level and period of disease increase. It will be useful to perform psychiatric consultations of patients at certain intervals and to treat the ones at high depression and death anxiety levels.

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“…Although Daradkeh stated that it increases considerably the death anxiety level [42], we found no difference in death anxiety between smokers and nonsmokers (p>0.05).…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 95%

Assessment of depression and death anxiety level in diabetic patients in Eskisehir, Turkey

Doğan

Arslantaş

Ünsal

2015

Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries

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“…Patients with death anxiety have higher VAS scores. It is unclear which precedes which; however, the two factors are thought to be interdependent (Daradkeh & Moselhy, 2011). However, it is possible that pain could shape the attitudes about terminal times and death.…”

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“…The current literature highlights numerous predictors of death anxiety, including socio-demographic variables, mainly gender, age, education, marital status, as well as general health, cultural differences, experiences of death and dying, religious aspects and psychopathology (Abdel-Khalek & Lester, 2009;Daradkeh & Moselhy, 2011;Lehto & Stein, 2009;Lester, Templer, & Abdel-Khalek, 2006.…”

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The Factors Contributing to Death Anxiety in Cancer Patients

Gonen

Kaymak

Cankurtaran

et al. 2012

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

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Suffering comes in many ways for patients confronting cancer. One of these is an unspecifiable fear about death, which is an existential issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between death anxiety and its correlates in cancer patients. Seventy cancer patients were assessed using SCID-I, Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, the Hospital Anxiety (A) and Depression (D) Scale, the Distress Thermometer, the Visual Analogue Scale for pain (VAS), the Global Assessment of Functioning, and Glock and Stark's Dimensions of Religious Commitment scales, and these assessments were compared between cancer patients with and without death anxiety. Multiple regression analysis was conducted after correlation analysis between death anxiety and sociodemographic and clinical variables. Axis I psychiatric diagnosis, pain scores, and negative believes about what will happen after death were found to be higher in patients having death anxiety than patients not having death anxiety. Also life expectancy was perceived as shortened in patients with death anxiety. Death anxiety was associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms, and beliefs about what will happen after death. In conclusion, death anxiety could not be regarded as a natural consequence of having cancer; it is associated with the unresolved psychological and physical distress.

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“…The ASDA has been used in various populations, for example, health professionals [23], drug dependents [24], psychiatric patients, healthy individuals [25], college students [3], and middle-aged individuals [26], to investigate the factors related to death anxiety.…”

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Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

Dadfar

Lester

Bahrami

2016

Journal of Aging Research

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The present study is aimed at examining the level of death anxiety and the sex-related differences among old-aged Iranian individuals sample to compare the old-aged persons with young college students and to explore the psychometric properties of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) factors in old-aged sample. A sample of 146 volunteer Iranian individuals took part in the study. The mean ages were 68.58 (SD = 7.10), men 68.81 (SD = 7.44) and women 68.28 (SD = 6.76), respectively. The mean score of the ASDA was 51.09 (SD = 20.19). Cronbach's alpha of the ASDA was found to be high (0.94); and Spearman-Brown coefficient was 0.92. Women had a significantly higher mean total score on the ASDA. Old-aged individuals had a significantly higher mean ASDA total score than younger college students (M age = 25.77). The factor analysis of the ASDA items yielded three factors accounting for 67.88% of the total variance labeled (F1) fear of dead people and tombs; (F2) fear of lethal disease and postmortem events; and (F3) death fear. These factors were highly replicable with previous factors extracted from a middle-aged Kuwaiti sample. On the basis of the present results, there are the following three general conclusions: death anxiety is not significantly correlated with age; the sex-related differences on death anxiety are striking in the Iranian samples; and the ASDA has a highly replicable factor structure among two Iranian and Arab countries.

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Death anxiety (Thanatophobia) among drug dependents in an Arabic psychiatric hospital

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

Assessment of depression and death anxiety level in diabetic patients in Eskisehir, Turkey

Assessment of depression and death anxiety level in diabetic patients in Eskisehir, Turkey

The Factors Contributing to Death Anxiety in Cancer Patients

Death Anxiety, Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety in Iranian Old-Aged Persons

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