Research Institute of Hawzah and University "Hawzah wa Dāneshgāh Research Institute" Journal of Islamic Education 1735-4536 16 37 2021 09 23 The Effectiveness of a “Death Anxiety” Training Package Based on Abrahamic religions concentrating on Islamic Teaching on Mental Health and Death Avoidance of Cancer Patients in Isfahan, Iran The Effectiveness of a “Death Anxiety” Training Package Based on Abrahamic religions concentrating on Islamic Teaching on Mental Health and Death Avoidance of Cancer Patients in Isfahan, Iran 121 139 1801 10.30471/edu.2020.6687.2284 FA Seyed Ali Kolahdouzan دانشجوی دکترای روانشناسی دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه اصفهان 0000000319041825 Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 0000-0002-9157-6026 Hamid Reza Oreyzi Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 0000-0001-5232-600 Mohammad Reza Abedi Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 0000-0003-3162-7044 Fariborz Mokarian Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 0000-0002-9874-298X Journal Article 2020 07 08 This article is intended to design a “death anxiety” training package based on Abrahamic religions concentrating on Islamic teaching and also to investigate the effectiveness of this training on psychological health and death avoidance of cancer patients in Isfahan city, Iran. This research is designed based on pre-test and posttest analysis including a control group. Twenty-six subjects (including 18 females and 18 males) were selected from cancer patients referred by Omid Hospital and Saba Oncological Clinic in Isfahan. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups (treatment group = 13 and control group = 13). The training package included seven weekly ninety-minute group sessions and the control group participated in seven sessions with some writing assignments with no purposeful training. Attendees filled up two questionnaires namely WHOQOL-BREF (α= 0.91) and DAP-R (α=0.88) in three time intervals: pre-test, posttest, and follow-up session held two month after final training session. SPSS-21 was used for data analysis. Comparing to the control group, subjects in the treatment group significantly increased in psychological health and significantly decreased in death anxiety and death avoidance. The result shows that training death attitude based on religious perspectives to cancer patients might help psychological health improvement. This article is intended to design a “death anxiety” training package based on Abrahamic religions concentrating on Islamic teaching and also to investigate the effectiveness of this training on psychological health and death avoidance of cancer patients in Isfahan city, Iran. This research is designed based on pre-test and posttest analysis including a control group. Twenty-six subjects (including 18 females and 18 males) were selected from cancer patients referred by Omid Hospital and Saba Oncological Clinic in Isfahan. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups (treatment group = 13 and control group = 13). The training package included seven weekly ninety-minute group sessions and the control group participated in seven sessions with some writing assignments with no purposeful training. Attendees filled up two questionnaires namely WHOQOL-BREF (α= 0.91) and DAP-R (α=0.88) in three time intervals: pre-test, posttest, and follow-up session held two month after final training session. SPSS-21 was used for data analysis. Comparing to the control group, subjects in the treatment group significantly increased in psychological health and significantly decreased in death anxiety and death avoidance. The result shows that training death attitude based on religious perspectives to cancer patients might help psychological health improvement. https://islamicedu.rihu.ac.ir/article_1801_6b48c88bd0e8d4d575e8400e18077e9c.pdf