The level of death anxiety of women with breast cancer in the center of Erbil Governorate

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Research Objectives: The current research aims to identify: - The level of death anxiety among women with breast cancer. - Differences in the level of death anxiety according to variables (cancer stage - marital status). The current research community consists of women with breast cancer in the center of Erbil Governorate, the number of simple random samples chosen by the researcher reached (225) with breast cancer, and the researcher prepared the death anxiety scale to measure the research variable, which consisted of (46) paragraphs, and the researcher extracted the apparent honesty and discriminatory power of the scale paragraphs, and (8) paragraphs were deleted from the scale paragraphs, and thus the scale in its final form consisted of (38), To extract the stability, the researcher adopted the internal consistency of the Alpha Cronbach equation, which amounted to (0.93), and the half-fractionation method, where the stability coefficient was (0.78) and the value was (0.87) when corrected by the Spearman-Brown equation. The researcher's findings are as follows: - In general, breast cancer patients suffer from death anxiety. - Statistically significant differences were found in death anxiety according to the cancer stage variable in favor of stages III and IV. - Statistically significant differences were found in death anxiety according to the social status variable in favor of married infected women. The researcher formulated a set of recommendations and suggestions according to the results obtained through her research.