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KMID : 0607320100190010096
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Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
2010 Volume.19 No. 1 p.96 ~ p.105
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Psychological and Spiritual Factors Associated with Death Anxiety of Elderly People Living at Home
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Kim Kyung-Hee
Kwon Hye-Jin
Choi Mi-Hye
Park Yoon-Ja
Kim Su-Kang
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Abstract
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Purpose: The study was done to investigate psychological spiritual factors related to death anxiety of elderly living at home.
Methods: A descriptive correlation study was conducted. The participants were 494 living at home elderly people conveniently selected in Seoul and Kyunggi province. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation and stepwise multiple regression were used for data analysis.
Results: The death anxiety positively correlated with depression and negatively with self-integrity, readiness of death, belief in life after death, and spiritual well-being. The factors influencing death anxiety were self-integrity, readiness of death, depression, and belief in life after death. Those four variables explained 21.6% of death anxiety.
Conclusion: It is expected to serve as a useful tool for nurses who serve elderly people in the clinical field and local community to help get a better understanding of death, and it is expected to lay a theoretical foundation for the development of strategies geared toward alleviating death anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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Death, Anxiety, Aged
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