Templer´s Death Anxiety Scale: Psychometric properties in terminal chronic renal failure
In Mexico, chronic renal failure (CRF) is a major public health problem with 4000 new cases per year where the outcome is usually the peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis with high probability of terminal prognosis. This research explored Templer´s Death Anxiety Scale adapted in Mexican subjects by R...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/26795 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/jbhsi/article/view/26795 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Death Anxiety Depression Anxiety Diabetes Death Ansiedad ante la muerte Depresión Ansiedad Muerte |
| Sumario: | In Mexico, chronic renal failure (CRF) is a major public health problem with 4000 new cases per year where the outcome is usually the peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis with high probability of terminal prognosis. This research explored Templer´s Death Anxiety Scale adapted in Mexican subjects by Rivera-Ledesma and Montero-López Lena (2010). The sample consisted of 83 diabetic patients with terminal CRF treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis with a mean age of 53.5 years (SD = 15.3), 71% of the sample were Seniors between 50 and 82 years old. It showed two factors that together accounted for 57.1% of the variance with an internal consistency alpha of .91, partly coinciding with the structure suggested by the adapted version. The two factors and total scale correlated significantly to each other suggesting homogeneity in the construct that determines the instrument. Additionally, the scale correlated significantly with Depression and Anxiety (between .38 and .48, p < .01), discriminating higher levels of these two variables between subjects with low and medium anxiety about death and those with a high degree of this anxiety (F = 5967, df = 2, p =. 004 and F = 7685, df = 2, p =. 001). It is possible to conclude that those subjects with high death anxiety may represent a group characterized by depression and significant anxiety. In addition, differences about sex: Women seem to have a highest average death anxiety (Mean = 26.9, S = 10.5) than men (Mean = 22.8, SD = 7.0, t = 2.04, df = 73.8, p = 0.044). It is desirable to promote psychological assistance to patients with terminal CRF to facilitate their adaptation to the chronic condition. |
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