اثربخشی گروه درمانی شناختی رفتاری بر اضطراب مرگ در سالمندان مرد سوگوار

Introductionand purpose: The mourning experience is a common phenomenon among elderly. Losing friends and peers along with senility and proximity to death intensify anxiety of death. The aim of &nbsp;present study was to assess the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy on death anxiety among the breavement elderly man. Materials and Methods: The current study is a quasi experimental research using posttest-pretest with control group. We used convinience sampling method to include 30 elderly residing at a nursing homes in Ardebil City. Templer Death anxiety questionnaire (DAS) was administrated in both pretest and posttest. &nbsp;The cognitive-behavioral intervention was implimented during eight sessions and each session takes about 90 minutes. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Findings: Our findings indicated that groupcognitive-behavioral therapy significantluy reduced death anxiety of elderly (p<0.001). Conclusion: &nbsp;According to the results of this research, group cognitive-behavioral therapy lreduces death anxiety of elderly via helping them to accept death.