Journal
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 811-826Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01357-9
Keywords
Anxiety; COVID-19 pandemic; Death; Life satisfaction; Nurses
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The study found that death anxiety among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their life satisfaction. It was recommended to provide more psychological and communication support to nurses and implement systematic physical and psychological evaluations for early intervention.
The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of nurses' death anxiety on life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted with 411 nurses in Turkey. Data were collected online through Google Forms using a sociodemographic form, the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS), and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Percentages, means, Pearson's correlation analysis, and hierarchical linear regression models were used to analyze the data. The nurses' mean age was 28.11 (SD = 6.27) years. More than half of the nurses stated that there were COVID-19 patients in the clinic where they worked (56.0%) and that they were afraid to provide care to patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (54.5%). Their mean RDAS total score was 57.33 (SD = 16.20), indicating moderate death anxiety, and their mean SWLS total score was 2.58 (SD = 0.82), indicating a low level of life satisfaction. Sociodemographic variables accounted for 8.8% of the variance. Death anxiety was associated with life satisfaction (beta = - 0.118, p < 0.05). Model 3, which included all of the analyzed independent variables, explained 17% of the variance in life satisfaction (R-2 = 0.171, p < 0.001). This study showed that death anxiety adversely affects life satisfaction. Higher death anxiety among nurses was associated with lower satisfaction with life. Based on the findings, we recommend providing more psychological and communication support to nurses and implementing systematic physical and psychological evaluations of nurses to facilitate early intervention.
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