Spirituality and Death Anxiety in Male and Female HIV positive Patients

Abstract

The present study was conducted to explore the relationship between spirituality and death anxiety in patients with HIV disease. It was hypothesized that there will be a significant relationship between spirituality and death anxiety in HIV-Positive patients and there will be high level of spirituality and death anxiety in HIV positive patients. It was also hypothesized that factors of spirituality will have significant relationship with death anxiety. Purposive sampling technique was used with survey design method and data was collected from Sindh HIV/AEDS Control Program Clinic. 100 Muslim participants (77 males and 23 females) suffering from HIV disease were recruited. The data was gathered using Consent Form, Demographic Information Form, Multidimensional Measure of Islamic Spirituality (Dasti, & Sitwat, 2014), and Templer Death Anxiety Scale (Templer, 1970). Obtained result was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 applying the Correlation and Regression Analysis. Result showed that spirituality is not a predictor of death anxiety, P value 0.754 for correlation of spirituality with death anxiety (P value< 0.05) and there is significant correlation present between sense of connectedness and death anxiety, P value 0.36 that is P value is > 0.05. It was also confirmed that there is high level of death anxiety and spirituality in HIV-Positive patients P values are 0.000 and 0.000 respectively. It is concluded that, Muslim Pakistani HIV-Positive patients have high level of Islamic spirituality and death anxiety. The model proposed is not a good predictor of death anxiety on the basis of spirituality in HIV-Positive patients.