One of the situations making us anxious, even by thinking about it, is death. Death anxiety among nurses exists on a daily basis and disregarding it can have adverse consequences including job dissatisfaction and mental problems for nurses as well as not receiving correct and adequate services for patients. On the other hand, a very important and influential factors affecting anxiety is religion and religious beliefs of people. This review study aims at highlighting the importance of enjoying Qur’an to reduce death anxiety.
This review article has been formulated by searching text book and databases including SID of the years 1986-2013
Anxiety is a reaction to an unknown, intrinsic and vague danger. Source of anxiety is no controllable and various elements contribute to its emergence. Moreover, special kinds of anxiety have been identified and named based on their source, among which death anxiety is the most important one. Death anxiety (thanatophobia) is defined as an unusual and great fear of death along with feelings of apprehension of death or process of death while thinking about things occurring after death. As a group of employees greatly contributing to the society, nurses experience different mental states some of which are desirable and some other undesirable. Among desirable variables is death anxiety. In long term, death anxiety can lead to Job fatigue, decrease in efficiency and effectiveness in workplace, high rates of absence, decrease in patients’ satisfaction levels, abandoning nursing occupation, marital problems, alcohol and drug abuse, decrease in creativity, conflicts with colleagues, depression and even suicide among nurses. Death anxiety can has adverse effects on the quality of nursing services and is considered as a tension making factor for nurses. Qur’an teachings direct society toward health. Therefore, enjoying spiritual effects of Qur’an is bound to using this holy book as a useful and accessible way of alleviating mental diseases. This latter point is described in detail in this article. Discussion and
Considering effect of death anxiety on physical and mental aspects of people, especially nurses and effect of this anxiety on the process of care for patients and with regard to alleviating effect of Qur’an teachings on the level of such anxiety, it seems that teachings of Qur’an can help all people especially nurses as to their mental health and peace.
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