Death Anxiety and Death Depression among Elderly Bala Renu1, Maheshwari S K2,* 1Lieutenant, Military Hospital, Barely cant, U.P. 2Associate Professor, University College of Nursing, BFUHS, Faridkot (Pb), India *Corresponding Author: S K Maheshwari, Associate Professor, University College of Nursing, BFUHS, Faridkot (Pb), India, Email: skmbfuhs@gmail.com
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract Background Death is the only certainty of the life. Elderly people have a significant death anxiety and death depression which causes negative effect on their health and creates low self esteem, lack of purpose in life, negativity and poor mental well being. Aim Present study aimed to assess the death anxiety and death depression among elderly and their relationship with socio-demographic variable. Method Descriptive, cross-sectional survey was done to assess the death anxiety and death depression among 100 elderly who were age of more than 60 years. Results Majority (94.0%) of elderly people had moderate death anxiety whereas (3.0%) had severe death anxiety. Majority (72%) elderly people had moderate death depression whereas (15%) had severe death depression. A significant moderate positive correlation was found between death anxiety and death depression (r=0.477 and p=<0.001). Conclusion Elderly people had moderate death anxiety and death depression and both are positively correlated. Recommendation There is an urgent need to initiate some interventional strategies to reduce death anxiety and death depression among elderly so that their physical and mental health can be improved. Top Keywords Death, anxiety, depression, elderly people. Top |