The stress bias in mental health reporting: Death anxiety biases mental health self-assessments amongst deployed soldiers.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale W. Russell ◽  
Cristel Antonia Russell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Self Assessments

The Relationship between Death Anxiety and Mental Health/Distress

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
William White ◽  
Paul J. Handal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Distress ◽  
High Death ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Mental Health Distress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interpretation Of Results

This study systematically examined the relationship between death anxiety and mental health/distress and controlled for methodological problems present in the literature. Specifically, two measures of death anxiety were used-both had recommended cut-off scores for high death anxiety. Both positive and negative aspects of adjustment were assessed, and a valid clinically meaningful cut-off score for distress was employed. Results revealed high death-anxious females were statistically and clinically more distressed and were significantly less satisfied with life than low death-anxious females. Similar results were obtained for males on one death-anxiety measure; a similar trend was found on the other measure. Discussion focuses on the interpretation of results.

Getting the right balance in mental health reporting

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Nicky Hindmarch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Death Anxiety in the Elderly in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Salmand ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Maliheh Khalvati ◽  
◽  
Masoudeh Babakhanian ◽  
Mahboube Khalvati ◽  
Ayub Nafei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Men And Women

Objectives: Aging is one of the most critical stages of human development that has its own characteristics and conditions. One of the most common issues in old age is the mental health whose achievement requires special attention from both health system policymakers and service providers to the elderly. Death anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues in old age, because this period is full of feelings of shortcomings and disabilities. Since death anxiety is a multidimensional factor, it is expected to affect many aspects of the elderly. The present study aims to review and analyze published studies in the field of death anxiety in the elderly in Iran. Methods & Materials: This is a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted on the studies related to the death anxiety of the elderly in Iran published in Persian from 2011 to 2019. A search was conducted in national databases, including SID, IranDoc, MagIran, IDML, and CIVILICA using the keywords: Death anxiety, elderly, and older adult. Initial search yielded 61 articles. After screening, 33 studies that met the entry and exit criteria were selected for the final review. We used Stata v. 14 and SPSS v. 22 applications to perform meta-analysis. Results: In the studies, 40.35% of the participants were older women and the rest were older men with a mean age of 67.80±6.44 years. The mean score of death anxiety was higher in men than in women, and the elderly living in nursing homes had the highest score (11.8). Studies were categorized into three sections: comparison (3 studies), intervention (11 studies), and factors affecting the death anxiety (18 studies). The results of meta-analysis showed no significant relationship between spiritual therapy and reduction of death anxiety in the elderly (P>0.05). In studies with spiritual and behavioral therapies, the heterogeneity was significant and, thus, a significant positive relationship was observed between the reduction of death anxiety and these treatments methods. Conclusion: The death anxiety level of the elderly in Iran is low. Religious beliefs, hopes for the intercession of imams and religious leaders, and hopes for freedom from the hardships of worldly life seem to have contributed to low death anxiety in Iran. Different death anxiety scores have been reported for older men and women in Iran may be due to the effect of culture, religion, and traditions, the difference in the roles of men and women, and even the expression of fear and anxiety. Most of men have less tendency to express their emotions, including fear, while women are more likely to express their feelings. Behavioral and spiritual interventions lead to a decrease in the elderly’s death anxiety through affecting their finding meaning in life.

scholarly journals IMPROVING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN: A STRENGTHS-BASED INTERVENTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S356-S356
Author(s):  
Christine Fruhauf ◽  
Loriena Yancura ◽  
Aimee Fox ◽  
Nathaniel Riggs ◽  
Heather Greenwood-Junkiermeyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Many grandparents raising grandchildren experience depression. Few interventions take a strengths-based approach to improve their mental health. To address this gap, this study utilized an adapted version of Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) for grandparents (PTC-G) to improve their self-care, communication, and self-efficacy. Grandparents completed self-assessments including the CES-D short form prior to the intervention, immediately after the 6-week program, and at 6-months. Focus groups were also conducted during the 6-month follow-up to further explore positive behavior change. Data from all sources were analyzed to show that the PTC-G program significantly lowered depressive symptoms of grandparents raising grandchildren. Qualitative data shows that grandparents report increased awareness and use of self-care practices and community services. By improving the health and well-being of grandparents raising grandchildren, the PTC-G intervention shows promise in reducing depression and improving long-term mental health outcomes in vulnerable grandfamilies.

scholarly journals Monitoring the effects of therapeutic interventions in depression through self-assessments

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Moragrega ◽  
René Bridler ◽  
Christine Mohr ◽  
Michela Possenti ◽  
Deborah Rochat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Voice Analysis ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Behavioural Changes ◽  
Analysis Scheme ◽  
Self Assessments

The treatment of major psychiatric disorders is an arduous and thorny path for the patients concerned, characterized by polypharmacy, massive adverse side effects, modest prospects of success, and constantly declining response rates. The more important is the early detection of psychiatric disorders prior to the development of clinically relevant symptoms, so that people can benefit from early interventions. A well-proven approach to monitoring mental health relies on voice analysis. This method has been successfully used with psychiatric patients to ‘objectively’ document the progress of improvement or the onset of relapse. The studies with psychiatric patients over 2-4 weeks demonstrated that daily voice assessments have a notable therapeutic effect in themselves. Therefore, daily voice assessments appear to be a lowthreshold form of therapeutic means that may be realized through self-assessments. To evaluate performance and reliability of this approach, we have carried out a longitudinal study on 82 university students in 3 different countries with daily assessments over 2 weeks. The sample included 41 males (mean age 24.2±3.83 years) and 41 females (mean age 21.6±2.05 years). Unlike other research in the field, this study was not concerned with the classification of individuals in terms of diagnostic categories. The focus lay on the monitoring aspect and the extent to which the effects of therapeutic interventions or of behavioural changes are visible in the results of self-assessment voice analyses. The test persons showed an over-proportionally good adherence to the daily voice analysis scheme. The accumulated data were of generally high quality: sufficiently high signal levels, a very limited number of movement artifacts, and little to no interfering background noise. The method was sufficiently sensitive to detect: i) habituation effects when test persons became used to the daily procedure; and ii) short-term fluctuations that exceeded prespecified thresholds and reached significance. Results are directly interpretable and provide information about what is going well, what is going less well, and where there is a need for action. The proposed self-assessment approach was found to be well-suited to serve as a health-monitoring tool for subjects with an elevated vulnerability to psychiatric disorders or to stress-induced mental health problems. Daily voice assessments are in fact a low-threshold form of therapeutic means that can be realized through selfassessments, that requires only little effort, can be carried out in the test person’s own home, and has the potential to strengthen resilience and to induce positive behavioural changes.

scholarly journals Prediction of Mental Health by Religious Orientation and the Mediating Role of Death Anxiety Among Nurses in the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akram Farhadi ◽  
Hamed Javadian ◽  
Pouya Farokhnezhad Afshar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role

Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been around for more than a year as a global problem, with nurses being among the first groups involved in treating epidemics. In addition to becoming infected and dying from the disease, nurses also suffer from death anxiety, affecting their mental health. It is necessary to investigate the modulating factors of this anxiety. The purpose of this study was to predict mental health by religious orientation and the mediating role of death anxiety among nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: The present descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted on 208 nurses working in the Central Hospital for the Treatment of COVID-19 patients in the Persian Gulf Martyrs Hospital in Bushehr, who were enrolled in the census. Data collection tools were the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28), the Templer’s Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and the Revised Religious Orientation Scale (ROS). Data were analyzed by SPSS version 22 software using the Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis.Results: Among the subjects, 53.5% of nurses experienced high death anxiety. According to the findings, death anxiety had a significant negative effect on mental health (P<0.001, β=-0.54). Intrinsic religious orientation led to a reduction in death anxiety (P=0.01, β=-0.16) and improved mental health (P<0.001, β=0.40), while extrinsic socially-oriented religiousness resulted in increased death anxiety (P<0.001, β=0.19) and decreased mental health (P<0.001, β=-0.20).Conclusion: The prevalence of death anxiety in the COVID-19 pandemic was high in nurses, which led to a decrease in their mental health. The results of this study revealed that the intrinsic religious orientation had a positive effect on reducing death anxiety and promoting mental health.

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