corona anxiety, death anxiety and health anxiety before and after corona vaccine injection in elderly men.

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

maedeh bazargani ¹ , Afsaneh Sobhi ² , maryam rahmati ³ , mahdi balibegloo ⁴ , zahra motahary ⁵

1 - clinical psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
3 - clinical psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.
4 - Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.
5 - Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.

Received: 2023-01-02 Accepted : 2024-02-15 Published : 2024-02-20

Keywords: Keywords: &quot, Corona anxiety&quot, , , , , , &quot, death anxiety&quot, , , , , , &quot, elderly&quot, , , , , , &quot, health anxiety&quot, ,

Abstract :

Abstract Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the difference between corona anxiety, death anxiety and health anxiety before and after corona vaccine injection in elderly men living in Zanjan Elderly Center. Metthodology: The method of the present research is an experimental one and it is pre-test-post-test, single group without control group with three time measurements. The statistical population includes all the elderly men of the Zanjan Center for the Elderly, and 30 of these people who had mild cognitive impairment in the mental status examination were selected purposefully and they responded to three questionnaires, namely the Corona Virus Anxiety Scale (Alipour, Gadami, Alipour and Abdulzadeh, 2018), Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970) and Health Anxiety Questionnaire (Salkoskis and Warwick, 2022). For data analysis, repeated measurement test was used using SPSS version 25 software. Findings:The results of the findings indicate that the injection of the corona vaccine has reduced the anxiety caused by the corona disease and the health anxiety of the elderly and increased the anxiety of death in the elderly. Conclusion:Therefore, according to the results of the research, which showed that death anxiety in the elderly is not significant after vaccination, it is necessary to organize workshops for the elderly in this regard.