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The Persian version of the CDS can help clinicians and nurses to assess patients' need and the degree of care dependency among older adults in Persian-speaking areas.

Background: Death depression is one of the components of death-related distress, characterized by a form of sadness related to the individual's death, other people's death, and/or the concept of death in general. Objectives: The current research aimed to investigate death obsession, death anxiety, and depression as predictors of death depression among married nurses in Iran. Methods: The sample consisted of 146 married female nurses from different wards of governmental hospitals, as well as Mehr and Arya private hospitals, affiliated to Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. The participants responded to the death depression scale-revised (DDS-R), death anxiety scale, death obsession scale, as well as the short-form of Beck depression inventory (BDI-13). Results: The findings indicated that death obsession, depression, and particularly death anxiety (β, 0.47), were predictors of death depression. The three predictive variables could explain 0.62 of variance in death depression. Conclusions: Different factors can affect death depression, including obsessions and anxieties related to death. Therefore, these concerns should be reduced dramatically in hospital settings, as stressful environments.

This study is an attempt to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale among men and women attending in religious rituals of Mosques in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: The sample consisted of 157 participants attending in religious rituals of Mosques in Shiraz, who were selected by a convenience sampling method after obtaining informed consent. They completed the Reasons for Death Fear Scale. Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis on RDFS identified 4 factors. Cronbach´s α coefficients was 0.86 for the entire of measure (18 items), with alphas ranging from 0.70 to 0.81 for the individual factors. The indices of convergent and divergent validity for this scale were all significant (P< 0.001). Conclusion: Given the validity and reliability of the Reasons for Death Fear Scale, this scale can be used in clinical settings and research studies.