Suicidality in Terminally III Japanese Patients with Cancer: Prevalence, Patient Perceptions, Contributing Factors, and Longitudinal Changes

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 183-191

  Akechi, Tatsuo ^a,b   Okuyama, Toru ^a   Sugawara, Yuriko ^a   Nakano, Tomohito ^c   Shima, Yasuo ^b   Uchitomi, Yosuke ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture; Suffering; Suicide; Terminal care; Terminally ill

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0346217042     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11890     Document Type: Article

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