Key result
Symptom status, positive religious coping, and negative religious coping were identified as predictors of death anxiety in elderly patients with heart failure.
Why the study?
Severe symptoms and death anxiety can occur in heart failure, and religious coping may help manage these problems, prompting an examination of the relationships between them in elderly patients.
How do symptom status, death anxiety, and religious coping correlate in elderly persons with heart failure?
Cross-Sectional (n=260)
How do symptom status, death anxiety, and religious coping correlate in elderly persons with heart failure?
Religious coping strategies may be important for managing death anxiety and symptom burden in elderly patients with heart failure.
Moderately high negative religious coping in elderly HF suggests screening potential; cross-sectional data leaves causal links to symptoms and death anxiety open.
Severe symptoms and death anxiety can be experienced in heart failure. Religious coping can be effective in managing these problems. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 260 elderly persons with HF in Türkiye. The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between symptom status, death anxiety, and religious coping in elderly persons with HF. It was found that the symptom status, death anxiety, and negative religious coping levels of the persons were moderately high, while their positive religious coping levels were high. Positive correlations were found between symptom status and death anxiety, between symptom status and negative religious coping, and between death anxiety and negative religious coping. There were negative correlations between symptom status and positive religious coping and between death anxiety and positive religious coping. In addition, it was found that the predictors of death anxiety were symptom status, positive religious coping, and negative religious coping. Strategies involving religions coping may improve death anxiety and symptom status for patients with HF.
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Fertelli et al. (2025) conducted a cross-sectional in heart failure (n=260). Religious coping was evaluated on Relationships between symptom status, death anxiety, and religious coping. Symptom status, positive religious coping, and negative religious coping were identified as predictors of death anxiety in elderly patients with heart failure.
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