Factors Related to Death Anxiety among Family Caregivers of Advance Cancer Patients
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The descriptive correlation research aimed to examine the relationships between caregiver relationships, symptom perceptions, death attitude, practice in the religious activities related to death, knowledge of caring for advanced cancer patients and death anxiety among family caregivers of advanced cancer patients. One hundred ninety-nine family caregivers of advanced cancer patients were selected from three setting. Data were collected by using 8 questionnaire instruments: a patient’s demographic data, a family caregiver’s demographic data, symptom perceptions, caregiver relationships, death attitude, practice in the religious activities related to death, knowledge of caring for advanced cancer patients and death anxiety among family caregivers of advanced cancer patients. All questionnaires were tested for content validity and reliability which were .83, .79, .88, .95 and .86 respectively. Data were collected by asking the samples to answer the questionnaires by themselves. Statistical techniques used in data analysis were percentile, mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The research results were as follows: (1) Death anxiety among family caregivers of advanced cancer patients was at middle to high level (x̄ = 3.7, S.D = 0.63). (2) Symptom perceptions was negatively and significantly related to Death anxiety among family caregivers of advanced cancer patients at the level of .05. (3) Practice in the religious activities related to death, death attitude and knowledge of caring for advanced cancer patients were positively and significantly related to Death anxiety among family caregivers of advanced cancer patients at the level of .05.
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