The relationship between social curiosity and spiritual health with death anxiety in nurses

Nurses are involved with a variety of anxieties, such as death anxiety, because of their jobs. Social curiosity and spiritual health are also factors influencing this anxiety. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social curiosity and spiritual health with death anxiety in Kermanshah nurses during the corona virus epidemic in 1399-1400.

In this research, descriptive and correlational research methods were used. 250 samples of nurses working in Kermanshah were used by cluster sampling method in such a way that out of 18 hospitals in Kermanshah, 10 hospitals and 25 nurses from each hospital were selected and questionnaires were distributed among nurses. Templer death anxiety questionnaire, Renner social curiosity scale, Plutzin and Ellison spiritual health scale were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression tests by SPSS26 statistical software.

The results showed that there was a significant negative relationship between social curiosity and spiritual health with death anxiety (p <0.05). The variables of social curiosity and spiritual health were able to predict 13% of nurses' death anxiety during the corona epidemic. (0/ 001, R = 0/36).

There was no significant difference between employed nurses with a history of infection and no history of coronary heart disease in the variables of death anxiety, social curiosity and spiritual health; In other words, with increasing social curiosity and spiritual health in people, the amount of death anxiety in them decreases