From dread to disorder: A meta-analysis of the impact of death anxiety on mental illness symptoms

RE Menzies, K McMullen, G Riotto, S Iliescu… - Clinical Psychology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Growing research suggests that death anxiety may be transdiagnostic, playing a key role in
the development and symptomology of psychopathology. This meta-analysis examined the …

Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer

RE Menzies, RG Menzies - Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the role of death anxiety in a broad range
of mental health disorders. It has been argued that the fear of death may be a …

The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale

RE Menzies, L Sharpe… - British Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Research spanning the fields of clinical, social and health psychology suggests
that death anxiety is an important construct. However, no comprehensive, psychometrically …

Overcoming death anxiety: a phase I trial of an online CBT program in a clinical sample

RE Menzies, A Julien, L Sharpe… - Behavioural and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Background: Growing research indicates that death anxiety is implicated in many mental
health conditions. This increasing evidence highlights a need for scalable, accessible and …

A cross-sectional study of existential concerns and fear of progression in people with Rheumatoid Arthritis

L Sharpe, B Richmond, J Todd, J Dudeney… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have higher levels of fear of disease
progression (FOP) than cancer survivors. In cancer, FOP is inextricably linked with …

Stoicism and death acceptance: integrating Stoic philosophy in cognitive behaviour therapy for death anxiety

RE Menzies, LF Whittle - Discover Psychology, 2022 - Springer
Growing empirical evidence has revealed the central role of death anxiety in numerous
mental health conditions. Given this, there is a significant need for treatments which …

[HTML][HTML] Improving adherence to a web-based cognitive-behavioural therapy program for social anxiety with group sessions: A randomised control trial

S Sigurðardóttir, FD Helgadóttir, RE Menzies… - Internet …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) commonly receive non-evidence based,
ineffective treatments. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated to be the …

A Systematic Review of Trajectories of Clinically Relevant Distress Amongst Adults with Cancer: Course and Predictors

L Curran, A Mahoney, B Hastings - Journal of Clinical Psychology in …, 2024 - Springer
To improve interventions for people with cancer who experience clinically relevant distress,
it is important to understand how distress evolves over time and why. This review …

Predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms, COVID-related functional impairment, and burnout among medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic

MK Lockett, B Fergerson, T Pyszczynski… - Psychology, Health & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Physicians are particularly vulnerable to mental health symptoms during global stressors
such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such stressors can increase death anxiety, which is a …

Starving off death: The effect of mortality salience on disordered eating in women

M Forrester, RE Menzies, L Sharpe - 2023 - europepmc.org
Several authors have claimed that death anxiety may be a transdiagnostic construct,
underlying a range of psychological disorders. One category of disorders that may be …