BACKGROUND Death anxiety among elderly is a major public health concern. Few studies, however, have been conducted on factors associated with death anxiety. OBJECTIVES This study investigated race and gender differences in psychosocial correlates of death anxiety among elderly in the US. MATERIALS AND METHODS With a cross-sectional design, we used data of the Religion, Aging, and Health sur...

Anxiety is associated with an increased risk of sudden death. QT dispersion is a marker of cardiac repolarization instability and is seen in conditions of high risk of sudden death. The purpose of this study was to evaluate autonomic nervous system control and QT dispersion in hypertensive subjects with anxiety symptoms. In a recent preliminary study, we observed that hypertensive individuals r...

Background Several studies have suggested an increased risk of fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) among patients with panic disorder, phobic anxiety, and other anxiety disorders. We prospectively examined this association in the Normative Aging Study. Methods and Results An anxiety symptoms scale was constructed out of five items from the Cornell Medical Index, which was administered to the coh...

Background Several studies have suggested an increased risk of fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) among patients with panic disorder, phobic anxiety, and other anxiety disorders. We prospectively examined this association in the Normative Aging Study. Methods and Results An anxiety symptoms scale was constructed out of five items from the Cornell Medical Index, which was administered to the coh...

OBJECTIVE Cancer is one of the four leading causes of death in children. Its courses of diagnosis and treatment can cause physiologic symptoms and psychological distress that secondarily affect children's quality of life and participation in daily activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of play-based occupational therapy on pain, anxiety, and fatigue in hospitalized chil...

Background Several studies have suggested an increased risk of fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) among patients with panic disorder, phobic anxiety, and other anxiety disorders. We prospectively examined this association in the Normative Aging Study. Methods and Results An anxiety symptoms scale was constructed out of five items from the Cornell Medical Index, which was administered to the coh...

Objective: This descriptive and relational study was conducted to examine the relationship between palliative care patients' humor styles death anxiety.
 Materials methods: The sample consisted of 282 patients treated in clinics a training research hospital January 2021 August 2021. Personal Information Form, Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale (TPDAS) Pall...

the aim of this study was to compare the satisfaction from body areas and social - physique anxiety in islamic azad university students. for this purpose, 424 athlete and non-athlete undergraduate students completed body areas satisfaction scale (bass) and seven-item social - physique anxiety scale (7-spas). results of multivariate analysis of covariance (mancova) showed that while sport (indiv...