K. Annapoorna's research while affiliated with Manipal Academy of Higher Education and other places

... Death is beyond an individual's control, hence the concept itself has generated great anxiety and concern among human beings (Latha et al., 2013). Death anxiety is the greatest when death is found to be correlated with pain (Abdel-Khalek, 2002). ...

... Javnbakht, Hejazi Kenari, & Ghasemi, 2009;Khalsa, Shorter, Cope, Wyshak, & Sklar, 2009;Nemati & Habibi, 2012;Shankarapillai, Nair, & George, 2012;Sureka et al., 2014) or did not assess one of the prespecified primary outcomes (severity of anxiety or remission rates)(Carter et al., 2013;Quinones, Maquet, Velez, & Lopez, 2015;Reddy, Dick, Gerber, & Mitchell, 2014;Rhodes, Spinazzola, & Van Der Kolk, 2016;Shannahoff-Khalsa et al., 1999;van der Kolk et al., 2014); one further article was published as a conference abstract only and did not provide enough information to be eligible(Annapoorna, Latha, Bhat, & Bhandary, 2011). For two articles, it was unclear whether all participants actually had elevated levels of anxiety; the authors of one study clarified that this was the case(Davis, Goodman, Leiferman, Taylor, & Dimidjian, 2015), those of the other article provided a subgroup anal- ...