Relationship Between Death Anxiety and Quality of Life Among Thalassemia Patient

Relationship between Death Anxiety and Quality of Life among Thalassemia Patient

Sehrish Liaqat and Dr.Rizwana Amin

Department of Applied Psychology, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan

Background

Death anxiety is the morbid abnormal or persistent fear of one’s own death or the process of his/her dying “Feeling of dread”(Lang, R, 2004).

Quality of life is a concept that reflects a person’s desired conditions of living related to eight core dimensions of one’s life: emotional well-being interpersonal relationships, material well-being personal development, physical well-being, self-determination, social inclusion, and  rights (Schalock, 2000)

Objective:

To find out, the relationship between death anxiety and quality of life among thalassemia Patients.  To find out the difference of death anxiety and quality of life among thalassemic  patient.

Hypothesis:

There is a significant relationship between death anxiety and quality of life among thalassemia  patient.

Method:

Participant-Instrument-Procedure.

• Sample consisted on 100 thalassemia patients. Sample selected from different hospitals. Purposive sampling was used to called the data.
• Life satisfaction Questionnaire(Endicoll et all,1993)Death Anxiety Questionnaire (McMordie 1979) were administered to the thalassemia   patients.
• Data was analyzed by utilizing Pearson correlation coefficient and independent sample test through SPSS-17.

Results

Table 1

Matrix of Pearson correlation Coefficient (N=100)

Table 1 indicates the relationship between death anxiety and Quality of life among thalassemia patient QOL has strong negative correlation with DASr= .323, (.001)** – P< 0.05.

Table  2

Mean standard deviation t-value and P-value for Quality of life male and female (N 100)

Table 2 indicate the compassion at QOL in male and female. The average mean score and standard deviation of male patients on QOL x is (M= 2.O, SD = .437) and for female patient are (M= 2.23, SD= .452) independent T-test has been applied there is no significance difference between tow variables t= 2.633, (.917) P >0.05

Table 3

Means, standard deviation, t- value and P- value for death anxiety male and female patient (N=100)

Table 3 indicate the comparison of death anxiety in male and female patient.(caculated through t-test) The average  mean score and standard deviation of male patients on death anxiety scale is (M= .57, SD = .168) and for female patients scores on received social support are (M = .557, SD  = .1476). independent T-test has been applied it reveals there is no significance difference between two variables t= .708, (.458) P> 0.05

Conclusion

Thalassemia is an inherited autosomal recessive blood disease. There is a significant relationship between death anxiety and quality of life among thalassemia patient the children were most likely to report impaired QOL due to seven difficulties in pain.