Life before death: Identifying preparatory grief through the development of a new measurement in advanced cancer patients (PGAC)

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 834-841

  Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a   Tsilika, Eleni ^a   Parpa, Efi ^a   Katsouda, Emmanuela ^a   Sakkas, Pavlos ^b   Soldatos, Costas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer patients; Death; Instrument; Preparatory grief

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LIFE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; STANDARD; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREECE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 26244460195     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-005-0797-4     Document Type: Article

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