Viswanathan R
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.
Psychosomatics. 1996 Jul-Aug;37(4):339-45. doi: 10.1016/S0033-3182(96)71546-3.
This study explored gender and specialty differences in death anxiety, locus of control, and purpose in life of physicians, and if these variables might influence the clinical behavior of physicians regarding death notification. The subjects were 155 attending and house staff physicians who responded to mailed questionnaires. The female physicians scored higher in death anxiety than the male physicians. The psychiatrists scored higher in death anxiety than surgeons. There was a trend for the internists to have scores indicating a more external locus of control. Purpose in life was inversely correlated with death anxiety and external locus of control. Death anxiety was related to the physicians' preferred mode of conveying the news of an unexpected patient death to the next of kin.
本研究探讨了医生在死亡焦虑、控制点和生活目的方面的性别及专业差异，以及这些变量是否可能影响医生在死亡通知方面的临床行为。研究对象为155名主治医师和住院医师，他们回复了邮寄的问卷。女医生在死亡焦虑方面的得分高于男医生。精神科医生在死亡焦虑方面的得分高于外科医生。内科医生的得分有显示出更外控倾向的趋势。生活目的与死亡焦虑和外控倾向呈负相关。死亡焦虑与医生向患者近亲传达意外患者死亡消息的首选方式有关。
