A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic
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This systematic review was conducted to estimate the pooled score of death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. All eligible articles from January 2020 to May 2022 reporting the death anxiety score were included in the analysis b.y searching the Scopus, PubMed, Embase, and ISI databases. The standard score of death anxiety in the COVID-19 pandemic was 50%. The highest score of death anxiety was related to patients with COVID-19 (59.4%), other chronic patients (58.9%), and the elderly (56.4%). The lowest death anxiety score was related to the general population (42.9%) and health care workers (48.2%). The death anxiety score in the studies whose data was collected in 2020 and 2021 was 51% and 62%, respectively. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people experienced high death anxiety, which had terrible effects on their lives. Therefore, it seems necessary to provide training courses to deal with death anxiety for other possible pandemics.
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In Patra et al., the standard score of death anxiety was 51% in Asia and 42% in Europe and America.
“The findings related to the continent showed that the standard score of death anxiety was 51% in Asia and 42% in Europe and America.”
From For whom the bell tolls: The fear of death and the ways to become less afraid of it (2024) · cites this paper as [4]
In Patra et al., the death anxiety score in studies related to 2020 and 2021 was 51% and 62%, respectively.
“In addition, the death anxiety score in studies related to 2020 and 2021 was 51% and 62%, respectively.”
From For whom the bell tolls: The fear of death and the ways to become less afraid of it (2024) · cites this paper as [4]
In a systematic review by Patra et al., the standard score of death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was 50%.
“the standard score of death anxiety in the COVID-19 pandemic was 50% …”
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- Authors
- Patra, I., Muda, I., Ketut Acwin Dwijendra, N., Najm, M. A., Hamoud Alshahrani, S., Sajad Kadhim, S., Hameed, N. M., Alnassar, Y. S., Mohammed, N. M., Mustafa, Y. F., & Shojaeimotlagh, V.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Technology Durgapur (IN)
- Universitas Sumatera Utara (ID)
- Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia
- Al-Ayen Iraqi University (IQ)
- Medical Surgical Nursing Department, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
- Medical Laboratory Techniques Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Babylon, Iraq
- Al-Nisour University (IQ)
- University of Mashreq (IQ)
- Mazaya University College (IQ)
- University of Mosul (IQ)
- Urmia University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Shojaeimotlagh, Vahid
- ORCID
- Venue
- OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023-06-29
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1079-1097
- ISSN
- 0030-2228 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-3764
- PMC
- PMC10311374
- OpenAlex
- W4382517142
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 1.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- fear of death, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 patients, older adults, healthcare workers, chronic disease patients, psychological impact of pandemic, coping skills training
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Anxiety, Attitude to Death, Humans, Pandemics
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