Selected Factors Related to Death Anxiety of Persons with Cancer
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Purpose: To examine dead anxiety of persons with cancer and the relationship between age, gender, disease stage, cancer type, family relationships, Buddhist religious beliefs about death, self-efficacy, unfinished business, symptom severity, and dead anxiety of persons with cancer.
Design: Descriptive correlational research
Methods: The sample group consisted of 181 individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer of all stages and all types, must be 18 years of age or older and received services at the cancer outpatient department of Ramathibodi Hospital and the National Cancer Institute. The research tools included a personal information questionnaire, Death Anxiety questionnaire, Family relationships assessment, unfinished business questionnaire, religious beliefs about death Questionnaire, Self-efficacy questionnaire and symptom severity questionnaire Cronbach’s alpha coefficients .85, .91, .84, .72, .86 and .87 Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation statistics and Eta.
Results: The research findings revealed that the sample group of cancer persons exhibited high levels of death anxiety, with an average score of 46.11 (SD = 10.80). Factors significantly positively correlated with death anxiety included disease stage, unfinished business, symptom severity, and cancer type (r = .77, r = .86, r = .55; Eta = .34, p < .05,). Factors significantly negatively correlated with death anxiety included family relationships, Buddhist religious beliefs about death, and self-efficacy (r = -.80, r = -.59, and r = -.34, p < .05).
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