Examination of Pandemic Awareness, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Well-Being in Elderly Individuals.

Publication date: Feb 01, 2025

This study aimed to examine the relationships between the variables of pandemic awareness, death anxiety, and spiritual well-being and reveal whether the participants’ perceptions of pandemic awareness, death anxiety, and spiritual well-being differed according to various sociodemographic characteristics. The study population is comprised of individuals aged 65 years and over in Edirne, Turkey. The data obtained from 449 people in the study were analyzed using various statistical methods. According to the results of the regression analysis performed in the study, the increase in the participants’ pandemic awareness was found to reduce their death anxiety and increase their spiritual well-being statistically. Moreover, the increase in the participants’ death anxiety statistically reduced their spiritual well-being.

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Concepts Keywords
Elderly 65 years and over
Pandemic Aged
Relationships Aged, 80 and over
Turkey Anxiety
Westport Attitude to Death
Awareness
COVID-19
death anxiety
Female
Humans
Male
pandemic awareness
Pandemics
spiritual well-being
Spirituality
Surveys and Questionnaires
Turkey
Turkey

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH Death
disease MESH Anxiety
disease MESH COVID-19

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