{"title":"Relationship of Depression, Hopelessness and Life Satisfaction With Death Anxiety in Individuals Who Have Had COVID-19.","authors":"Neslihan Lok, Zekiye Aydın, Gülten Uzun, Büşra Kayaaslan, Alime Selçuk Tosun","doi":"10.1177/00302228231174602","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231174602","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between depression, hopelessness and life satisfaction with death anxiety and the determinants of death anxiety in individuals who have had COVID-19. This descriptive and correlational study was conducted with 402 adult individuals. Personal Information Form, Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale, Beck Depression Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale were used to collect the data. In the study, a positive relationship was found between death anxiety and depression and hopelessness, and a negative relationship was found between death anxiety and life satisfaction (<i>p</i> < .001). As a result, being female, having undergraduate or graduate education, having high levels of depression and hopelessness and low life satisfaction were found to be determinants of death anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"5-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10183336/pdf/10.1177_00302228231174602.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9460029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/00302228231180784
Vasiliki Kouroglou
{"title":"Working With the Terminally Ill: An Exploration of the Experiences of Psychotherapists in Greece.","authors":"Vasiliki Kouroglou","doi":"10.1177/00302228231180784","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231180784","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study explored mental health professionals' experiences of working with terminally ill patients in Greece, how they make sense of their lived experiences of working with the dying, and investigated how they relate to their personal and professional growth. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five mental health professionals who work or have worked with terminally ill patients in Greece. Their responses were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The main themes that emerged were (1) Emergence of opportunities for growth and transformation; (2) Finding satisfaction and fulfillment; (3) Openly addressing the negative side of challenges; and (4) Tuning into the spiritual side. Overall, the participants emphasized the importance of the different types of relationships these experiences touched upon, and highlighted the effect of their line on work on the relationship with their patients, their relationships with significant others and coworkers, and their relationship with their own selves.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"254-272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9541457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1177/00302228231181256
Dragana Maric, Gorica Maric, Aleksa Jovanovic, Jovana Maricic, Katarina Ivanovic, Tatjana Pekmezovic
{"title":"Psychometric Properties of the Serbian Version of the Death Attitudes Profile- Revised (DAP-R) Instrument.","authors":"Dragana Maric, Gorica Maric, Aleksa Jovanovic, Jovana Maricic, Katarina Ivanovic, Tatjana Pekmezovic","doi":"10.1177/00302228231181256","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231181256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R), one of the most widely used scales for assessing death attitudes is a multidimensional questionnaire capable of measuring a wide range of attitudes towards death. The aim of our study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Serbian version of the DAP-R. The study was conducted in October 2022 and included a total of 547 students of the Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade (FMUB). Based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient values, our data show good reliability of the DAP-RSp (Serbian version). In our study, the confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit of the data to the original factor structure with minor discrepancy; compared to the original version (five factors), our analysis yielded one more factor (six factors in total), however, almost all items had factor loading >0.3 on the appropriate scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"273-283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9563361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unknown Aspect of Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers of Elderly: A Phenomenological Study.","authors":"Yeşim Ceylantekin, Şerife Didem Kaya, Dilek Cingil","doi":"10.1177/00302228231184752","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231184752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study aims to evaluate caregiving emotional state of caregiver family members, their state of experiencing compassion fatigue, and their opinions about effect of compassion fatigue on care. The study was designed using a phenomenological pattern, and 10 volunteer family caregivers were included in the study group. Individual interview technique was used in data collection. Data was analyzed through content analysis with an inductive method and gathered under three themes: (1) opinions of caregivers about emotional status of caregiving to their patients, (2) symptoms of compassion fatigue, and (3) relationship of compassion fatigue and care process. In content analysis conducted on expressions of caregivers about their caregiving to their patients, 8 categories were created under Theme 1, 11 categories are established in the theme of symptoms of compassion fatigue, and 15 categories are created in the theme of relationship of compassion fatigue and care process. Caregivers used codes such as \"to the best of my ability, sufficiently, as far as possible, remorse.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"427-447"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9683801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/00302228231179352
Sai Sameera N, Aishwarya Lakshmi P, Sangeetha Lakshmi B, Ram R, Siva Kumar V
{"title":"A Study of Near-Death Experience in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.","authors":"Sai Sameera N, Aishwarya Lakshmi P, Sangeetha Lakshmi B, Ram R, Siva Kumar V","doi":"10.1177/00302228231179352","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231179352","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BackgroundThe near-death experiences (NDE) in dialysis patients of our country have not been previously studied. The objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics of NDEs in patients on dialysis.Materials and MethodsWe performed a cross sectional study of the adult patients of chronic kidney disease stage 5 without dialysis and on dialysis who survived cardiac arrest by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as per ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) guidelines and who sustained pulseless ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation and received CPR and/or direct cardioversion. We used two scales, Greyson's NDE scale and Ring's Weighted Core Experience Index (WCEI).ResultsWe performed the study between 2016 and 2018. A total of 29 patients were included. The data based on Greyson's NDE scale and Ring's Weighted Core Experience Index (WCEI)were collected.ConclusionsOur study brings a perspective of NDE in CKD and dialysis patients. A similar study of NDE in dialysis patients should be considered by other nephrologists.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"228-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9521921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/00302228231178870
Hilde-Margit Løseth, Kari Dyregrov, Lillian Bruland Selseng, Sonja Mellingen
{"title":"\"How Do Municipal Managers Describe Improving the Services Provided to Drug Death-Bereaved Persons?\" a Qualitative Study.","authors":"Hilde-Margit Løseth, Kari Dyregrov, Lillian Bruland Selseng, Sonja Mellingen","doi":"10.1177/00302228231178870","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231178870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bereavement following drug-related losses is potentially traumatizing and may cause adverse health outcomes. These bereaved experiences are unacknowledged and omitted in municipal health and welfare service delivery. Reflexive thematic analysis was applied to six focus group interviews with 26 municipal managers. Knowledge about municipal managers' perspectives for improving psychosocial follow-up to drug-death-bereaved persons was perceived as vital for improving the quality of public services. The findings show how the services are perceived to be affected by macro-, meso, and micro-level processes. The participants suggested that service delivery should be based on an integrated organizational approach. Political, organizational, administrative, financial, and communicative processes are addressed and discussed in light of Osborne's theory of public service logic. The managers argue that a broad, contextual frame and infrastructure, enhancing managers' latitude of action regarding employees and facilitating collaborative service flexibility, would provide more sustainable, competent services.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"193-212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12444028/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9546326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1177/00302228231186369
M Milagros Armas-Arráez, Gustavo M Padilla, Luz M Fernández-Mateos, Antonio Sánchez-Cabaco
{"title":"Death Distress and Religiosity Among Spanish Patients Diagnosed With Depression and Anxiety.","authors":"M Milagros Armas-Arráez, Gustavo M Padilla, Luz M Fernández-Mateos, Antonio Sánchez-Cabaco","doi":"10.1177/00302228231186369","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231186369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Death is a common source of uncertainty and fear for humans. Religious beliefs are among the strategies that alleviate such discomfort. The aim of this study was to explore the correlation between Death Distress and religious practices while considering other associated variables (near-death experiences, death of loved ones, and psychiatric diagnoses). The Death Anxiety Scale, Death Depression Scale-Revised, and Death Obsession Scale were administered to 400 Spanish psychiatric outpatients. Anxiety was found to be crucial for the development of Death Distress across all associations. A relation between Death Distress and Catholicism was found, albeit significantly mediated by the frequency of practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"495-510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9742635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/00302228231184296
Gaudenz Urs Metzger, Tina Braun
{"title":"Imaginaries of Dying: The Visual Rhetoric of Stock Images Tagged with \"Palliative Care\".","authors":"Gaudenz Urs Metzger, Tina Braun","doi":"10.1177/00302228231184296","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231184296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In digital culture and its global economy, images circulate transnationally and shape cultural ideas about social and existential issues. While there is growing interest in death online, few studies have investigated the role of visual material in different forms of communication in this field. In this article, we examine the depiction of dying and death in stock photographs tagged with \"palliative care\" drawing on an image corpus of 618 photographs. Stock photographs are images produced for commercial purposes that are stored in databases by agencies on the Internet. To analyze how these representations depict fictional palliative care settings, we used visual grounded theory. The findings show that typical caregivers are portrayed as emphatic individuals, while patients appear as composed human beings facing death without fear. We argue that the images represent aspects of the modern hospice philosophy and the cultural narrative of healthy aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"395-411"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12444029/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9735326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis of Good Death Research from 2001-2021.","authors":"Ming-Hsuan Hsieh, Wei-Chih Lin, Te-Chun Yeh, Chia-Jen Liu, Mingchih Chen, Chih-Kuang Liu","doi":"10.1177/00302228231184301","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231184301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quantitative analysis via bibliometric field analyses is a recent, gradually emerging method. We conducted a bibliometric study to investigate the authors' scientific influence and contributions and evaluate trends and research foci in good death-related literature using the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection. A total of 1,157 publications were selected for the analysis. There was a significant increase in annual publications per year (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.79). The publication (317, 27.4%) and average citation (29.2) numbers were highest in the USA. Controlling for population number and GDP, the Netherlands had the highest number of articles per million persons (5.89) and US$ 10<sup>10</sup> GDP (1.02). North American and Western European countries are leaders in the field, but some East Asian countries (Japan and Taiwan) perform well. Current research focuses on patient perspectives of good death and advance care planning among patients, families, and health care providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"378-394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9642762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OmegaPub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1177/00302228231182738
Pia von Blanckenburg, Carola Seifart, Annette Ramaswamy, Daniel Berthold, Christian Volberg
{"title":"Prolonged Grief in Times of Lockdown During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Pia von Blanckenburg, Carola Seifart, Annette Ramaswamy, Daniel Berthold, Christian Volberg","doi":"10.1177/00302228231182738","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228231182738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of prolonged grief (PG) during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze associated variables. 142 family members of patients who died during the lockdown at a hospital were surveyed 6 months after the death. Prolonged grief, depression and anxiety, grief rumination, and loss-related variables were captured. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to detect the associated variables of PG symptoms. Prolonged grief was present in 44.4% of the bereaved. 76.2% of the relatives reported feeling distressed due to visitor restrictions, and the majority of them were unable to bid farewell to their family member at the time of death. Pastoral or psychological care was also lacking. Low education (<i>p</i> < 0.001), emotional closeness (<i>p</i> = 0.007), loss of a spouse (<i>p</i> < 0.001), inability to bid farewell after death (<i>p</i> = 0.024), feeling of threat due to the pandemic (<i>p</i> < 0.001), depression (<i>p</i> = 0.014), and anxiety (<i>p</i> = 0.028) were significantly associated with prolonged grief.</p>","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"303-321"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d9/13/10.1177_00302228231182738.PMC10261962.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9640321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}