Death Anxiety in the Iranian Elderly: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Study


Raziani Y. Mahdavi A. Ngoc Huy D.T. Mutlak D.A. Le K. Laila A. Ghanei Gheshlagh R.
2022SAGE Publications Inc.

Omega (United States)
2022

The present study aimed to estimate the standard score of death anxiety in the Iranian elderly. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, national and international databases were searched from inception to January 2022. All the observational studies published in Persian and English, which reported a death anxiety score based on the Templer death anxiety scale, were selected. The standard score of death anxiety in the elderly was 50% (95% CI: 45–56). No correlation was observed between the year of publication (p =.092) and sample size (p =.94) with the standard score of death anxiety in the elderly. With increased age, death anxiety scores declined. Publication bias was not significant (p =.340). Iranian seniors achieved half of the total score of death anxiety, which indicated the average level of death anxiety. Providing training to effectively manage death anxiety is essential to preventing the adverse consequences of extreme death anxiety.

death anxiety , elderly , Iran , meta-analysis , systematic review

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Nursing Department, Komar University of Science and Technology, Sulaymania, Iraq
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Banking university HCMC Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam- International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan
Al Nisour University College, Baghdad, Iraq
Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Kazakhstan
Spiritual Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Nursing Department
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Banking university HCMC Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam- International University of Japan
Al Nisour University College
Ho Chi Minh City Open University
Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University
Spiritual Health Research Center

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