The Role of Spiritual Intelligence and Mindfulness in predicting Death Anxiety among Students at Zahedan Faculty of Nursing (Iran)

eath anxiety is one of the human’s tensions that occurs in certain occupations such as nursing (1) and in various fields (such as cancer screening in healthy people of the community, psychiatric care, care in trauma and critical conditions, and care for chronic patients) (2). This type of anxiety represents a constant, abnormal fear of death, namely, thanatophobia (3). An unusual and great fear of death is characterized by the overwhelming expression of the horror of death or of anxiety when thinking about the process of dying or what happens after death (4). Based on the results of Aghajani et al. (5), there was a significant difference in the average of death anxiety between nurses in intensive and general wards, and the mean death anxiety was associated with certain variables such as marital status, organizational position, and the ward where they were currently working. The results of the study also showed that there was a significant difference in death anxiety among female nurses in different wards of the hospital, while the emergency department nurses had less death anxiety than the nurses of the other wards, and operating room nurses had the highest level of death anxiety (6). Humans in the ups and downs of history have always suffered from many pains and social traumas, and they have been seeking out measures and motives to find ways and means to get rid of them; the set of such knowledge and experiences expanded certain grounds for human beings’ spirituality and religiosity. D Abstract