DEATH ANXIETY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS AND HIV TB CO-INFECTED PATIENTS

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the Death Anxiety and Psychological Well-being of HIV +ve patients and HIV TB co-infected patients and the examine the difference between gender and type of disease of the study on their death anxiety and psychological well-being. For this investigation sample consists of 80, (40 HIV +ve and 40 HIV TB co-infected) were taken from Gulbarga District, Karnataka State. This sample consists of both male and female HIV +ve patients and HIV TB coinfected male and female samples. Death anxiety scale and psychological well-being scale was used for this study, and't' test was applied to examine the difference between sample subgroups. The result through the study showed significant difference between male and female HIV +ve patients and HIV TB co-infected patients in death anxiety and psychological well-being.