Holistic approach in relation with spiritual intervention among critically ill adult patients - Effect on death anxiety

Abstract

Introduction: There are very few studies relating to spiritual aspects of death and it was felt that this is the area which needs further exploration. In the present study an attempt has been made to study effect of some selected interventions for death anxiety. Research Methodology: The design selected for the study was one group pre test – post test design. Dependent variables are psychological variations among critically ill and Independent variables were spiritual interventions. Results: pretest mean score was 7.81 and standard deviation was 3.52 where as post test mean score was 6.01 and standard deviation was2.99. Mean difference was 1.88 and paired t value was 0.98, which shows that there is significant effect of spiritual intervention on death anxiety. Conclusion: This study proved that a strong sense of spirituality in a person’s life can be related to a lower sense of anxiety towards the death. We do not identified any  association between spirituality and death anxiety but it has also been shown that death anxiety tends to be lower in individuals who are given regular spiritual interventions.