1. Spirituality and Attitudes Toward Death Among Older Adults in Rural and Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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Jiang, Xiucheng, Lu, Weinan, Luo, Hui, Yang, Jianhua, Chen, Min, Wang, Jiayu, Wu, Mengping, Chen, Xiyao, Tang, Yuanyuan, Hu, Yanli, and Zhang, Limei
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SPIRITUALITY , *RURAL conditions , *CROSS-sectional method , *FEAR , *COMPARATIVE studies , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *AGING , *RESEARCH funding , *METROPOLITAN areas , *ANXIETY , *PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation , *ATTITUDES toward death , *RURAL population , *OLD age - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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