The Study of Relationship between Public Health and the Anxiety of Death in AIDS Patients of Tehran

The present study examined the relationship between general health and anxiety of death in AIDS patients in the city of Tehran. Statistical population of the study will totally include all of the patients with AIDS in Tehran who were in the 18-45 age level. The sample of this research consisted of 100 subjects (90 males and 10 females), who were referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital of Tehran for the treatment and counseling during the period of July to September 2012 and were selected based on available sampling method. Research instrument was a standard questionnaire. Research methodology is Correlational, and the statistical method is regression analysis and Pearson correlation test. The results of this research showed there is a significant correlation between the anxiety of death and general health. In other words, the life expectancy and general health is associated with the anxiety of death. Results of the study indicate that the variable symptoms of physical is able to explain the variance, which is 11.8 %( R2 = 0.118). By adding the variable of depression caused to increase the variance about 9% in the second model (R2= 0.207) and has been able to explain approximately 20.7% of the variance.

The Anxiety of Death, Life Expectancy, Public Health, AIDS