Death Anxiety in Manic Depressive Patients.

ABSTRACT

Aim — The purpose of the study was to asses the differences between manic depressive patients and control subject on death anxiety scale. Method — Sample- 100 clinically diagnosed manic depressive patients taken from the mental hospital Varanasi and 100 well equated/matched control of the study. The age was 18-65years, and mean of the age was 41.5 years. A number of extraneous variable like the age, gender, academic qualification, social economic status were recorded. Tool — Thakur and thakur’s (1985) death anxiety scale was used.. This scale was reliable and valid. Procedure — The subjects were individually approached and personal profiles prepared. The first of all, the demographic information was completed and there after, given instruction. The purpose of the study was explained as an exploration of their personal views on topics related to death. The filled questioner was check and response endorsement and the items were scrutinized and error if any, control and incorporated in consultation with the subject. Result — The result of the present study was manic depressive patients score high on death anxiety scale than control subjects. Some more result to be discussed at the time of presentation.