Psychology Students' Perceptions of COVID-19 in a Death Education Course.
COVID-19
death
death education
lockdown experience
psychology students
Journal
Frontiers in public health
ISSN: 2296-2565
Titre abrégé: Front Public Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101616579
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
03
11
2020
accepted:
19
03
2021
entrez:
3
5
2021
pubmed:
4
5
2021
medline:
15
5
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The systematic removal of death from social life in the West has exposed people living in areas affected by COVID-19 to the risk of being unable to adequately manage the anxiety caused by mortality salience. Death education is a type of intervention that helps people manage their fear of death by offering them effective strategies to deal with loss and anxiety. To that end, a path of death education has been carried out with University students of psychology. The main purpose of the research is to understand how students who participated in the death education course perceive the lockdown experience in light of course teachings. The research was carried out at a University in northern Italy in an area severely affected by COVID-19, during the first year of the pandemic. The group of participants included 38 students, 30 women and 8 men, with an average age of 25.45 years (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33937167
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.625756
pmc: PMC8086793
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
625756Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Testoni, Iacona, Corso, Pompele, Dal Corso, Orkibi and Wieser.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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