This study is a content analysis of the articles about death anxiety published in Science Direct database between the years of 2005 and 2016. According to the results of the studies obtained from Science Direct database, there are many research related with death anxiety. However, since all of the studies did not fulfill search criteria for content analysis, a total number of 36 articles published between the years of 2005 and 2016 were used in this study. The analyzed data was grouped by the year of publication, country of the research, method of the study and group of the sample. The data was analyzed as percentage and frequency and presented as a table. This study provided about death anxiety the opportunity to identify current trends and methods used in research published in Science Direct database. Various results were obtained from this study. According to the results, the number of studies on death anxiety each year increased regularly. The most research on death anxiety was done in the USA and Israel. The not-experimental quantitative method was the most frequently used method in the studies about death anxiety. Patients are the most preferred sampling group. Based on the results, recommendations were presented for future research. This work will be a guide for researchers who will conduct studies in this area. Keywords: Death anxiety, death, anxiety, existentialism, content analysis.

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