AWARENESS NECROPHOBIA AMONG DENTAL STUDENTS- A SURVEY

Abstract

Introduction: This research was done to investigate the level of necrophobia among the general population. Phenomenal of deviant burials and also the disposals of the dead with emphasis on necrophobia (fear of death). There are many theories of death, related things and necrophobia have been examined and elaborately studied in Greece and other such countries.

Aim : To create awareness of necrophobia among dental students

Materials and method: This is a cross sectional study and quantitative method. Number of people involved was 2 and the sample size was 155. The participants involved in this study are from saveetha dental college. Simple random sampling is used to minimize the sampling bias.

Result: 38.32% of the population responded to fear and 40.19% reacted to irrelevant fear which is true. 87.85% of the population had necrophobia only minor 12.15% of the participants responded know having phobia nearly half of participants reacted to know in going to graveyard and 50.47% reacted as that they had fear in going to graveyard major 63.42% of the respondents reacted yes in seeing human courts alone and only 33.64% reacted no. 77.57% of the population felt anxious on seeing human corpse while 22.43% didn’t.

Conclusion: Males aren’t afraid of going to the graveyard alone; also females are more afraid of seeing human corpse;. females have the most fear of all human corpses. The phobia was mostly due to anxiety or stress. They can come out of this by taking counselling or exposing fears.