Death anxiety in high blood pressure patients

Pages: 485-486
Akancha Srivastava (TD College, Jaunpur)

The present study was designed to examine the differential effects of death anxiety in High Blood Pressure patients. 100 patients in HBP group were selected for testing. A normal group of same strength was also sampled for the purpose of comparison with patients. Death anxiety in the subjects was measured with Thakur Death Anxiety Scale developed by Thakur and Thakur (1984). The responses of the subjects were converted into scores and were subjected to suitable statistical techniques.The results obtained reveal that the HBP patients are more anxious about death anxiety in comparison to normal group. The results are thoroughly discussed and relevance of the findings are indicated.