PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to provide basic data by surveying the literature for the past fifteen years (2001-2015). The focus of the search was death anxiety among the elderly.
METHODS
Sixty-two published works including graduate theses were selected for the Meta-analysis.
RESULTS
Study results showed that variables related to familial factors were the most often cited in the review of the manuscripts as relevant to death anxiety among the elderly. Specifically family support was most important. The other variables reported in the literature review were classified into four other groupings: social, physical, psychological, and demographics. The significant variable in the social grouping was religious activities, health promotion in the physical grouping and ego integrity in the psychological group.
CONCLUSION
This study could provide effect sizes of variables based on materials, which are needed to make an intervention program that is related to death anxiety of the elderly. Since this study identified major variables as significant to death anxiety, several distinctions within these variables can be further studied as these relate to death anxiety.

Citations

• Factors Influencing Death Anxiety among Rural Elderly
  Hyenam Hwang
  Journal of Health Informatics and Statistics.2019; 44(2): 111.     CrossRef
• Factors Influencing Death Anxiety in Community-Dwelling Elderly: Based on the Ecology Theory
  Yeonha Kim, Minju Kim
  The Korean Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care.2019; 22(1): 30.     CrossRef
• Factors Influencing Death Anxiety in Elderly Patients in Long-term Care Hospitals
  Mi Suk Lee, Hee Jung Choi
  Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing.2016; 18(3): 138.     CrossRef