Kulakçı Altıntaş Hülya, Ercan Şahin Nilay
Health Science Faculty, Nursing Department, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Esenköy, Kozlu, Zonguldak, 67600, Turkey.
Nursing Faculty, Hacettepe University, Adnan Saygun Stress D-Buildings 1. Floor, Samanpazarı, Ankara, 06100, Turkey.
BMC Geriatr. 2025 Jul 2;25(1):454. doi: 10.1186/s12877-025-05839-3.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of attitudes to ageing and depression as predictors of death anxiety in community-dwelling older adults.
The study was a cross-sectional and correlational design and conducted with 400 participants who met the inclusion criteria and admitted to four different family health centers in Turkiye. Data were collected with the Individual Evaluation Form, Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire, Geriatric Depression Scale and Templer Death Anxiety Scale.
According to the results, community-dwelling older adults have depressive symptoms and death anxiety; and the attitudes to ageing and depression can predict death anxiety among community-dwelling older adults.
This result highlights that interventions should be planned in order to reduce death anxiety among community-dwelling older adults by taking the attitude to ageing and the symptoms of depression into account.
本研究旨在评估对衰老的态度和抑郁作为社区居住老年人死亡焦虑预测因素的影响。
本研究采用横断面相关设计,对符合纳入标准并入住土耳其四个不同家庭健康中心的400名参与者进行了研究。使用个体评估表、衰老态度问卷、老年抑郁量表和坦普勒死亡焦虑量表收集数据。
根据结果,社区居住的老年人有抑郁症状和死亡焦虑;对衰老的态度和抑郁可以预测社区居住老年人的死亡焦虑。
这一结果突出表明,应通过考虑对衰老的态度和抑郁症状来规划干预措施,以减少社区居住老年人的死亡焦虑。