Özer Özlem, Özkan Okan, Büyükşirin Bilge
Department of Healthcare Management, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Healthcare Management, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Omega (Westport). 2025 Feb;90(3):1293-1312. doi: 10.1177/00302228221120122. Epub 2022 Aug 13.
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.
本研究旨在探讨大流行认知、死亡焦虑和精神幸福感等变量之间的关系,并揭示参与者对大流行认知、死亡焦虑和精神幸福感的认知是否因各种社会人口学特征而有所不同。研究人群包括土耳其埃迪尔内65岁及以上的个体。本研究从449人那里获得的数据采用了各种统计方法进行分析。根据该研究进行的回归分析结果,发现参与者大流行认知的增加在统计学上会降低他们的死亡焦虑并提高他们的精神幸福感。此外,参与者死亡焦虑的增加在统计学上降低了他们的精神幸福感。