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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.5.241

Attitudes toward death awareness among department of health university students  

Yu, Eun-Yeong (Department of Health Administration, Gwangju Health University)
Yang, Yu-Jeong (Dept. of Medicine Management, Chodang University)
Jung, Eun-Yeong (Department of Health Administration, Gwangju Health University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.5, 2017 , pp. 241-251 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate 314 college students in G area from December 1 to December 30, 2015 to investigate death attitude and related factors of health college students. As a result of the analysis, the level of death awareness was 2.04, and the average score was 2.49 points of pain anxiety, 1.95 points of death anxiety, and 1.86 points of anxiety. Death awareness sub - domains showed significant differences in age, grade, health status, and living standards. Pain anxiety, death anxiety, and later life anxiety. The results of this study are as follows: First, the effects of anxiety and anxiety on death, anxiety of death, anxiety of life, anxiety of suffering, anxiety of life, anxiety of death, The fear of death was not so great as death felt far from reality at once. However, a correct perception of death can lead to more peaceful deaths and more rewarding life for the present. Death preparation education is needed to live a meaningful life for college students who are far from death.
Keywords
Death awareness; Pain anxiety; Death anxiety; Afterlife anxiety; College students;
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