Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study

The purpose of this study was to investigate spirituality and attitudes toward death among rural and urban elderly. We asked 134 older adults from rural areas and 128 from urban areas to complete a self-administrated questionnaire including the Spiritual Self-assessment Scale and Death Attitude Scal...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Xiucheng, Lu, Weinan, Luo, Hui, Yang, Jianhua, Chen, Min, Wang, Jiayu, Wu, Mengping, Chen, Xiyao, Tang, Yuanyuan, Hu, Yanli, Zhang, Limei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10071228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37012553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01794-8
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author Jiang, Xiucheng
Lu, Weinan
Luo, Hui
Yang, Jianhua
Chen, Min
Wang, Jiayu
Wu, Mengping
Chen, Xiyao
Tang, Yuanyuan
Hu, Yanli
Zhang, Limei
author_facet Jiang, Xiucheng
Lu, Weinan
Luo, Hui
Yang, Jianhua
Chen, Min
Wang, Jiayu
Wu, Mengping
Chen, Xiyao
Tang, Yuanyuan
Hu, Yanli
Zhang, Limei
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description The purpose of this study was to investigate spirituality and attitudes toward death among rural and urban elderly. We asked 134 older adults from rural areas and 128 from urban areas to complete a self-administrated questionnaire including the Spiritual Self-assessment Scale and Death Attitude Scale. The fear and anxiety of death, escape acceptance, natural acceptance, approach acceptance, and death avoidance scores of older adults living in rural areas were higher than those living in urban areas. The construction of social infrastructure and medical care should be strengthened in rural areas so as to improve older adults’ attitudes toward death.
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spelling pubmed-100712282023-04-04 Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study Jiang, Xiucheng Lu, Weinan Luo, Hui Yang, Jianhua Chen, Min Wang, Jiayu Wu, Mengping Chen, Xiyao Tang, Yuanyuan Hu, Yanli Zhang, Limei J Relig Health Original Paper The purpose of this study was to investigate spirituality and attitudes toward death among rural and urban elderly. We asked 134 older adults from rural areas and 128 from urban areas to complete a self-administrated questionnaire including the Spiritual Self-assessment Scale and Death Attitude Scale. The fear and anxiety of death, escape acceptance, natural acceptance, approach acceptance, and death avoidance scores of older adults living in rural areas were higher than those living in urban areas. The construction of social infrastructure and medical care should be strengthened in rural areas so as to improve older adults’ attitudes toward death. Springer US 2023-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10071228/ /pubmed/37012553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01794-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Jiang, Xiucheng
Lu, Weinan
Luo, Hui
Yang, Jianhua
Chen, Min
Wang, Jiayu
Wu, Mengping
Chen, Xiyao
Tang, Yuanyuan
Hu, Yanli
Zhang, Limei
Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort spirituality and attitudes toward death among older adults in rural and urban china: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10071228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37012553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01794-8
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