en P6: The Effectiveness of Didactic Approach on the Reduction of Death Obsession روانشناسی Psycology پژوهشي Research --- Open Access, CC-BY-NC <p style="text-align: center;">لطفاً به چکیدۀ انگلیسی مراجعه شود.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. Death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. Death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses. Nurses with such emotion need to death education program. Didactic method is one of the approaches to death education program. Aim of this study was the effectiveness of didactic approach on the reduction of death obsession among nurses. The participants were 12 nurses. They were selected randomly from ICU and CCU wards of the Khatom-Al-Anbia General Hospital in Tehran city. The nurses completed the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) before and after intervention. Didactic approach was held in 36 hours in 6 workshops weekly. Data were analyzed through dependent t-test using SPSS/WIN 16.0 program. Results showed that there was a significant difference between pretest and posttest for the didactic approach on the DOS scores (T=2.21, df=11, p<.05). We conclude that didactic approach is useful on the reduction of death obsession and promotion of mental health in the nurses. It is recommended that in psychoeducational interventions related to attitudes towards death and dying, the focus should be placed on a community-based approach.</p> Death education, Didactic approach, Death obsession, Nurses 29 29 http://shefayekhatam.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-24-729&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mahboubeh Dadfar Mahboubeh Dadfar mahboubehdadfar@yahoo.com 100319475328460010808 100319475328460010808 Yes Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, International Campus, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, International Campus, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran David Lester David Lester 100319475328460010809 100319475328460010809 No Department of Psychology, Stockton University, New Jersey, USA Department of Psychology, Stockton University, New Jersey, USA Behrooz Birashk Behrooz Birashk 100319475328460010810 100319475328460010810 No Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Ali Asghar Asgharnejad Farid Ali Asghar Asgharnejad Farid 100319475328460010811 100319475328460010811 No Department of Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran Department of Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran Mohammad Kazem Atef Vahid Mohammad Kazem Atef Vahid 100319475328460010812 100319475328460010812 No Department of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran, Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran Department of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health-Tehran, Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran