The role of physical and psychological symptoms in desire for death: a study of terminally ill cancer patients
| Autor: | Kyriaki Mystakidou, Efi Parpa, Lambros Vlahos, Antonis Galanos, Emmanuela Katsouda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Attitude to Death Palliative care Critical Illness media_common.quotation_subject Pain Terminally ill Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neoplasms Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Psychiatry Fatigue Aged media_common Aged 80 and over Feeling sad Performance status Depression business.industry Palliative Care Cancer Appetite Middle Aged medicine.disease Sadness Psychiatry and Mental health Oncology Pain psychology Female business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psycho-Oncology. 15:355-360 |
| ISSN: | 1099-1611 1057-9249 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/pon.972 |
| Popis: | The current study assessed the attitudes of the desire for hastened death in terminally ill cancer patients and whether these are determined by their physical and psychological symptoms. The final sample consisted of 106 terminally ill cancer patients attending a Palliative Care Unit, in University of Athens, Greece, between June and October 2004. Significant associations were found between the desire for hastened death (D.H.D.) and 'pain' (r=0.469, p |
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