TOC et Scrupulosité Religieuse

[Acceptance Of Death And Its Dehospitalisation].

Semergen . 2020;46 (3) :186-193

Résumé

INTRODUCTION: Death is part of life. The awareness that death is inevitable could be the cause of mental disorders.OBJECTIVE: To determine the level of death anxiety in old people as regards age, gender, social aspects, physical and leisure activities, self-esteem, religion or advanced disease, as well as their preferences on the place where they want to die.MATERIAL AND METHOD: Cross-sectional observational study. Face-to-face interviews and Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) of Templer on 300 patients over 75years-old without a diagnosis of dementia, selected randomly in four health centres.RESULTS: A total of 288 surveys were completed. The mean age was 84.8 (15.2) years, and 147 (51.0%) were older than 85years. The score of medium-high anxiety observed in the DAS was higher in women (50%-39.6%; P=.030), in those who did not perform physical activity (68%-26.4%; P

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