A Review: The relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety of hemodialysis patients visiting Golestan University of Medical Sciences in 2015-2016 Download PDF

Background and goal. These days mental health of the hospitalized patients is important, due to the role they have on physical health and the recovery process, such that the efforts of the specialists have been directed towards reducing tensions of hospitalization period, especially in caregivers for chronic patients. This study aimed to determine the relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety of hemodialysis patients visiting hospitals dependent on the Golestan University of Medical Sciences in 205-2016. Methodology: This study was a descriptive and co relational study. The subjects in this study, all hemodialysis patients visiting the hospitals dependent on the Golestan University of Medical Sciences in the year 2015-2016, That, using simple cluster-random sampling selected 250 people among them and with standardized questionnaire, Alport’s religious orientation, and Templer’s death anxiety were evaluated. Results: The results showed that religious orientation in the sample above the average was 6/9 + 1/56 and death anxiety below the average was 8/2 + 7 (p =0/001). The findings also indicated that there is a negative relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety. In addition, religious orientation was significantly related with variables like job, surgery, age, duration of diabetes and death anxiety also had a significant relationship with variables of education, history of surgery, duration of diabetes, sex and age. Women and men had also no significant differences in death anxiety. Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that by increasing religious orientation in hemodialysis patients, their death anxiety declines (p=0/001). As the age of patients increase religious orientation increases and death anxiety decreases. Surgical history and duration of the disease, further education and being female, will increase death anxiety. On the other hand, by the increase in surgical experience, religious orientation increased. Duration of disease and employment reduces religious orientation.