BACKGROUND Understanding children's health after a sibling's death and what factors may affect it is important for treatment and clinical care. This study compared children's and their parents' perceptions of children's health and identified relationships of children's age, gender, race/ethnicity, anxiety, and depression and sibling's cause of death to these perceptions at 2 and 4 months after ...

The aim of this study was to describe the psychometric properties of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA). The original scale was first translated into Farsi by language experts using the back translation procedure and then administered to a total of 252 Iranian college students and 52 psychiatric outpatients from psychiatric and psychological clinics. The one-week test-re...

The reliability and concurrent validity of the 15-item Death Obsession Scale [Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (1998a). The structure and measurement of death obsession. Personality and Individual Di€erences, 24, 159±165] is examined among 174 English university students (83 men, 91 women) and 105 English adults (42 men, 63 women). Consistent with previous ®ndings when using the Death Obsession Scale, the s...

AIM Having patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) remains an extremely stressful live event for family members, especially for those having to confront with brain death patients. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among relatives of brain dead patients in ICU in Kerman, Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, using DASS- 42 questionnair...

The Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy on Psychological Distress, Functional Disability, and Death Anxiety in Heroin-Dependent Individuals

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Previous adverse pregnancy outcomes (recurrent spontaneous abortion, fetal death, preterm birth or early neonatal death) can affect the quality of life of pregnant women. The objective of this study was to compare the quality of life and the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression among pregnant women with and without these antecedents. DESIGN AND SETTING An ana...

The situation of being transgender and a homosexual can make them feel like an alien. Homosexual behavior is very risky for the incidence sexually transmitted diseases threat death. existence this awareness death raises different response in each person, including anxiety. Not infrequently anxiety felt excessively causes observable symptoms. This study aims to determine differences among groups...