Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, P.O. Box 3030, 22110, Jordan.
Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences/Health Promotion Research Group, University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
J Relig Health. 2021 Feb;60(1):50-63. doi: 10.1007/s10943-020-01129-x. Epub 2020 Dec 7.
This descriptive study aimed to examine the association of death anxiety with religious coping and spiritual well-being among 248 community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief Arab religious coping scale, the Arabic version of the spiritual well-being Scale, and the Arabic Scale of death anxiety were used to measure religious coping, spiritual well-being, and death anxiety, respectively. The majority of the participating older adults were found to have low levels of religious coping and spiritual well-being and high levels of death anxiety. Further, in comparison to male older adults, female older adults were found to have higher levels of religious coping and lower levels of death anxiety. Moreover, in comparison to widowed older adults, married older adults were found to have higher levels of death anxiety. After controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, religious coping, and spiritual well-being were found to be significant predictors of death anxiety in older adults.
本描述性研究旨在探讨 248 名在 COVID-19 大流行期间居住在社区中的老年人的死亡焦虑与宗教应对和精神幸福感之间的关系。使用简短的阿拉伯宗教应对量表、阿拉伯语版精神幸福感量表和阿拉伯语版死亡焦虑量表分别测量宗教应对、精神幸福感和死亡焦虑。研究发现，大多数参与研究的老年人的宗教应对和精神幸福感水平较低，而死亡焦虑水平较高。此外，与男性老年人相比，女性老年人的宗教应对水平更高，死亡焦虑水平更低。此外，与丧偶老年人相比，已婚老年人的死亡焦虑水平更高。在控制了人口统计学特征后，宗教应对和精神幸福感被发现是老年人死亡焦虑的重要预测因素。
