Comparison of Death Anxiety, Death Obsession, and Humor in Nurses and Medical Emergency Personnel in COVID-19 Pandemic

Khajoei, Rahimeh; Dehghan, Mahlagha; Heydarpour, Nabiollah; Mohseni, Mina; Shokohian, Sajad; Maazallahi, Mahboobeh; Forouzi, Mansooreh Azizzadeh

doi:10.1016/j.jen.2022.02.004

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“…In the study of Kojaei et al in Iran [ 9 ], the average death anxiety score of emergency personnel was 5.68, which is lower compared to the average death anxiety in the present study. In other words, the results differed from this study.…”

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“…Because the study by Sadeghi et al was done before the COVID-19 outbreak, it can explain this difference to some extent. It seems that considering the key role of emergency medical staffs in the COVID-19 pandemic, various stressful factors have imposed many psychological effects on this personnel [ 9 ] and led to the creation of such differences before and after the outbreak. In the current study, death anxiety was higher in the group of staffs without a history of first-degree family members being infected with the COVID-19 disease than staffs with a history of first-degree family members being infected with the COVID-19 disease.…”

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“…In the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing number of confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus and the high work pressure have led to psychological pressure on pre-hospital emergency personnel [ 8 ]. In other words, they are exposed to various mental disorders due to stressful factors such as increased workload, increased number of patients, frequent exposure to death of patients, and fear of getting infected and transmitting the disease to their friends [ 9 ].…”

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“…Death anxiety is one of those conditions [ 9 ]. Death anxiety is a multi-dimensional concept with emotional, cognitive, and experiential features and is defined as a sense of anxiety or fear of death [ 9 ]. It has been stated that providing care to a dying person is one of the most stressful human experiences [ 10 ], so it can be said that facing death and death anxiety is inevitable in the profession of emergency medicine [ 11 ].…”

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Investigating the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Background Pre-hospital emergency staffs as the frontline forces fighting against COVID -19 have been affected by this pandemic. Today, the occupational and mental health of these individuals is particularly important to the health care system. Death anxiety is one of the inevitable things in this job, and not paying attention to it can cause unwanted effects such as changing the level of job satisfaction of the personnel. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among pre-hospital emergency staffs in Qazvin Province, Iran in 2021–2022. Among the bases chosen by the census method, 198 samples were included in the study by the available method. Data collection tools included the Demographic Checklist, Templer's Death Anxiety scale, and the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. The data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS 20 software. Results The mean age of the samples was (33.14 ± 6.77). 167 persons were male and the others were female. The average job satisfaction and death anxiety of the personnel were 55.07 ± 11.50 and 8.18 ± 1.96, respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficient between the two variables was r = -0.126 And a null correlation coefficient hypothesis has been confirmed with p-value = 0.077. Conclusions The results showed a high level of death anxiety and average job satisfaction. Although these two variables do not have a significant relationship with each other, considering that they do not have the appropriate level, it needs more investigation and consideration.

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Death Anxiety and Its Related Factors among Advanced Nurse Practitioner Candidates: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Aim. To examine death anxiety and its related factors among candidates to become advanced nurse practitioners. Background. Nurses are required to care for dying patients and frequently face death-related issues in clinical practice. Yet, as human beings, it is natural for nurses to feel anxious about their own mortality, which can be incited by witnessing the death of another person. It is evident that a nurse’s death anxiety level may influence how they care for their patients. However, studies to date focus primarily on the death anxiety of patients. Little is known about such experiences among registered nurses, especially those training to be advanced nurse practitioners. Design. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study. Methods. Participants were postgraduate students pursuing their advanced nurse practitioner degree at Nam Dinh University of Nursing, Vietnam. The enrolment criteria included full-time student status and a willingness to participate in the study. Data were collected from 297 participants who completed a self-administered questionnaire during February or March 2022. Death anxiety was measured using Templer’s Death Anxiety Scale. Results. Most advanced nurse practitioner candidates demonstrated a moderate level of death anxiety (109/297; 39.1%). Nearly three in ten (74/297; 26.5%) reported a high level of death anxiety. No statistically significant associations between nurses’ life satisfaction, age, and death anxiety were found. Death anxiety levels did not differ by gender, work position, workplace, or frequency of caring for dying patients ( p > 0.05 ). Conclusions. There is an identified need to support nurses, especially future nurse clinical leaders, to manage their death anxiety. Professional training programs should offer nurses the opportunity to develop skills necessary to cope with their negative attitude toward death. Further research is recommended to confirm the apparent associations between death anxiety and demographic and psychosocial factors. Those relationships should be examined with appropriate consideration of the contextual and cultural environment in which the study is performed.

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic

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This systematic review was conducted to estimate the pooled score of death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. All eligible articles from January 2020 to May 2022 reporting the death anxiety score were included in the analysis b.y searching the Scopus, PubMed, Embase, and ISI databases. The standard score of death anxiety in the COVID-19 pandemic was 50%. The highest score of death anxiety was related to patients with COVID-19 (59.4%), other chronic patients (58.9%), and the elderly (56.4%). The lowest death anxiety score was related to the general population (42.9%) and health care workers (48.2%). The death anxiety score in the studies whose data was collected in 2020 and 2021 was 51% and 62%, respectively. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people experienced high death anxiety, which had terrible effects on their lives. Therefore, it seems necessary to provide training courses to deal with death anxiety for other possible pandemics.

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Comparison of Death Anxiety, Death Obsession, and Humor in Nurses and Medical Emergency Personnel in COVID-19 Pandemic

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Investigating the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic

Investigating the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic

Death Anxiety and Its Related Factors among Advanced Nurse Practitioner Candidates: A Cross-Sectional Study

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic

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