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Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the death concerns, the theory of mind and metacognitive processes of intensive care nurses who spend a lot of time with patients and live with the fact of death. Materials and Methods: Nurses/health officers who work in Tokat State Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) and Tokat Mental Health and Diseases Hospital and non-health worker as a control group taken into the study. Clinical data form, Templer Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Reading The Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and Metacognition-30 (MCQ-30) Questionnaire were administered to all participants. Results: The study included 55 nurses/health officers working in ICU, 51 nurses/health officers working in psychiatric services and 45 non-health workers. There was no sociodemographically significant difference between the groups. When the relationship between the scales is looked at; there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of TACE, BDI, and BAI scores. For MCQ-30 Questionnaire, the need for control scores of psychiatric service workers were statistically higher than non-health workers. For the RMET test; the nurses' performance were better than the non-health workers group. Conclusion: It was revealed that there was no difference between the death concerns of both ICU and psychiatry services nurses and nurses had a different theory of mind processes in some parameters.

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