Death Anxiety in Caregivers of Chronic Patients
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Materia
Chronic illnesses Lethal chronic diseases Chronic disabilities
Date
2024-01-02Referencia bibliográfica
Quevedo-Blasco, R.; Díaz-Román, A.; Vega-García, A. Death Anxiety in Caregivers of Chronic Patients. Healthcare 2024, 12, 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12010107
Résumé
This study aimed to determine the extent to which caregivers of patients with chronic
illnesses experience death anxiety, and which variables from caregivers and patients might potentially
be related to their death anxiety. It also aimed to compare the levels of death anxiety between
patients and caregivers. Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Psychology Database, Cochrane, and
Google Scholar were searched for original studies available until December 2022 that quantitatively
addressed death anxiety in family and informal caregivers of individuals with chronic illnesses. The
methodological quality of the included studies was assessed, and a meta-analysis was conducted
using Hedges’ g as the effect size index and the DerSimonian–Laird method to analyze differences
between patients and caregivers in death anxiety. The results of the 11 included studies showed
moderate levels of death anxiety in caregivers, and the meta-analysis (k = 7; 614 patients and
586 caregivers) revealed non-significant differences between the death anxiety experienced by patients
and caregivers (pooled Hedges’ g = −0.03, 95% CI = −0.29 to 0.25, p = 0.802). Some sociodemographic
and psychological factors (e.g., gender, depression, and anxiety) might be related to the death anxiety
experienced, but additional research is necessary to validate these findings.