Psychosocial-spiritual correlates of death distress in patients with life-threatening medical conditions

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 331-338

  Chibnall, John T ^a   Videen, Susan D ^a   Duckro, Paul N ^a   Miller, Douglas K ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude to death; Depression; Palliative care; Physician patient relations; Religion and medicine

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 0036062720     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm544oa     Document Type: Article

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