Open AccessDetermination of Death Anxiety and Death-Related Depression Levels in the Elderly During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Zeynel Abidin Erbesler,
Gökçe Demir
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
omega - journal of death and dying
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1541-3764
pISSN - 0030-2228
DOI - 10.1177/00302228221082429
Subject(s) - death anxiety , depression (economics) , anxiety , pandemic , covid-19 , psychology , psychiatry , cause of death , medicine , clinical psychology , gerontology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , macroeconomics , economics
The aim of the study is to determine the levels of death anxiety and death-related depression in the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of the descriptive-relational study includes 344 elderly people registered in a family health center. It was determined that the most dreaded fear reported by the elderly who got COVID-19 infection was death, and there was a highly significant positive correlation between death anxiety and death-related depression ratings of the elderly and that as the average death anxiety score of the elderly rises, so does the degree of death-related depression.
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