Depression, hopelessness, and sleep in cancer patients' desire for death

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 201-211

  Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a,b   Parpa, Efi ^a   Tsilika, Eleni ^a   Pathiaki, Maria ^a   Galanos, Antonis ^a   Vlahos, Lambros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression; Desire for hastened death; Hopelessness; Sleep quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CANCER PATIENT; DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCHEDULE OF ATTITUDES TOWARD HASTENED DEATH; SLEEP; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP DISORDERS; TERMINALLY ILL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34547929474     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/0509-7332-388N-566W     Document Type: Article

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