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aghasi Z, Jafari H, Araghian Mojarad F, moosazadeh M, Esmaeili R. The Relationship Between Spiritual Needs and Death Anxiety Among Nurses in Emergency Departments. J Mazandaran Univ Med Sci 2025; 35 (248) :89-93
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Zahra Aghasi 
, Hedayat Jafari , Fereshteh Araghian Mojarad , Mahmood Moosazadeh , Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili
, Hedayat Jafari , Fereshteh Araghian Mojarad , Mahmood Moosazadeh , Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili
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Background and purpose: Spiritual needs, in coordination with physical, mental, and social health, can mitigate or even help control death anxiety. Given that death anxiety among nurses has numerous negative effects that can impact the quality of patient care, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between spiritual needs and death anxiety in nurses.
Materials and methods: In this descriptive-analytical (cross-sectional) study, using the census sampling method, 187 nurses from the emergency departments of medical training centers affiliated with Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in 2023 were included. Data were collected using a demographic information form (including age, gender, marital status, number of children, level of education, religion, nursing work experience, work experience in the emergency department, type of shift work, and type of emergency department), the Templer Death Anxiety Scale, and the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ).
Results: A total of 187 nurses working in the emergency departments of Bu Ali Sina, Fatemeh Zahra, Imam Khomeini, Zare Sari, and Razi Qaemshahr hospitals were included in the study. The results showed that gender, marital status, and type of emergency department were significantly associated with nurses’ death anxiety. After adjusting for confounding variables, death anxiety was significantly lower in men than in women. Death anxiety was higher among nurses with less than three years of nursing experience and in those working in burn wards compared to other nurses. Among the dimensions of spiritual needs, religious needs, existential needs, need for inner peace, and emotional needs were positively and significantly associated with death anxiety. In contrast, forgiveness needs were not significantly related to death anxiety.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated a positive relationship between the dimensions of spiritual needs, except for the forgiveness needs dimension, and death anxiety.
Materials and methods: In this descriptive-analytical (cross-sectional) study, using the census sampling method, 187 nurses from the emergency departments of medical training centers affiliated with Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in 2023 were included. Data were collected using a demographic information form (including age, gender, marital status, number of children, level of education, religion, nursing work experience, work experience in the emergency department, type of shift work, and type of emergency department), the Templer Death Anxiety Scale, and the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ).
Results: A total of 187 nurses working in the emergency departments of Bu Ali Sina, Fatemeh Zahra, Imam Khomeini, Zare Sari, and Razi Qaemshahr hospitals were included in the study. The results showed that gender, marital status, and type of emergency department were significantly associated with nurses’ death anxiety. After adjusting for confounding variables, death anxiety was significantly lower in men than in women. Death anxiety was higher among nurses with less than three years of nursing experience and in those working in burn wards compared to other nurses. Among the dimensions of spiritual needs, religious needs, existential needs, need for inner peace, and emotional needs were positively and significantly associated with death anxiety. In contrast, forgiveness needs were not significantly related to death anxiety.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated a positive relationship between the dimensions of spiritual needs, except for the forgiveness needs dimension, and death anxiety.
Keywords: Emergency nurses, spiritual needs, existential needs, religious needs, emotional needs, death Anxiety
Type of Study: Brief Report |
Subject:
Nursing Education
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