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Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study
Background: Death and the anxiety of it becomes more apparent when confronted with a chronic disease. Even though multiple sclerosis (MS) is a treatable condition today, it is still accompanied by a multitude of impairments, which in turn may intensify of death anxiety. Objective: The aim of this st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34439584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11080964 |
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author | Francalancia, Jara Mavrogiorgou, Paraskevi Juckel, Georg Mitrovic, Tina Kuhle, Jens Naegelin, Yvonne Kappos, Ludwig Calabrese, Pasquale |
author_facet | Francalancia, Jara Mavrogiorgou, Paraskevi Juckel, Georg Mitrovic, Tina Kuhle, Jens Naegelin, Yvonne Kappos, Ludwig Calabrese, Pasquale |
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description | Background: Death and the anxiety of it becomes more apparent when confronted with a chronic disease. Even though multiple sclerosis (MS) is a treatable condition today, it is still accompanied by a multitude of impairments, which in turn may intensify of death anxiety. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between depression, anxiety and death anxiety in individuals with MS. Methods: Fifty-six MS patients were recruited at the Department of Neurology of the University Clinic in Basel. Death anxiety was assessed using the Bochumer Questionnaire on attitude to death and death anxiety 2.0 (BOFRETTA 2.0). Results: Scores of death anxiety towards it in MS patients were low. Only disability (EDSS) was moderately correlated with death anxiety. Depression in MS was significantly correlated with fatigue and disability, but not with the BOFRETTA 2.0. Conclusion: Scores of death anxiety and the attitude towards death are low in this MS cohort. It was shown that both psychopathological and neurological deficits impact the subject of death with respect to multiple sclerosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-83914022021-08-28 Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study Francalancia, Jara Mavrogiorgou, Paraskevi Juckel, Georg Mitrovic, Tina Kuhle, Jens Naegelin, Yvonne Kappos, Ludwig Calabrese, Pasquale Brain Sci Article Background: Death and the anxiety of it becomes more apparent when confronted with a chronic disease. Even though multiple sclerosis (MS) is a treatable condition today, it is still accompanied by a multitude of impairments, which in turn may intensify of death anxiety. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between depression, anxiety and death anxiety in individuals with MS. Methods: Fifty-six MS patients were recruited at the Department of Neurology of the University Clinic in Basel. Death anxiety was assessed using the Bochumer Questionnaire on attitude to death and death anxiety 2.0 (BOFRETTA 2.0). Results: Scores of death anxiety towards it in MS patients were low. Only disability (EDSS) was moderately correlated with death anxiety. Depression in MS was significantly correlated with fatigue and disability, but not with the BOFRETTA 2.0. Conclusion: Scores of death anxiety and the attitude towards death are low in this MS cohort. It was shown that both psychopathological and neurological deficits impact the subject of death with respect to multiple sclerosis. MDPI 2021-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8391402/ /pubmed/34439584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11080964 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Francalancia, Jara Mavrogiorgou, Paraskevi Juckel, Georg Mitrovic, Tina Kuhle, Jens Naegelin, Yvonne Kappos, Ludwig Calabrese, Pasquale Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title | Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title_full | Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title_fullStr | Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title_short | Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study |
title_sort | death anxiety and attitudes towards death in patients with multiple sclerosis: an exploratory study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34439584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11080964 |
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