Influencing factors of attitudes towards death and demands for death education among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study

Author:

Lei LeiORCID,Zhao Hongyan,Ran Lijuan,Wang Lihua,Luo YuORCID

Abstract

Abstract Background Considering older adults are getting closer to the end-of-life and face death more directly. Attitudes to death not only affect the physical and mental health of older adults, but also affect their acceptance of hospice care, even the quality of death. This study aims to explore the status, influencing factors of attitudes toward death and demands of death education among the community-dwelling older adults in southwestern China. Methods A cross-sectional survey was adopted to investigate 683 community-dwelling older adults in Chongqing, China. Non-parametric test and multiple linear regression analysis was used to explore the influencing factors of different attitudes toward death of older adults in community. Results The multiple linear regression models showed that different dimensions of death attitudes were affected by one or more factors including number of diseases, discussion about life and death, marital status, and average income per month. And community-dwelling older adults have high level demand for death education. Conclusions Under the taboo culture of death in China, this study is one of the few studies on the attitudes toward death and the demands for death education of the community-dwelling older adults. This study contributes to enrich the global death studies and provide reference for the death education for older adults.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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