The experience of hopelessness in a population of Greek cancer patients receiving palliative care

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-271

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression; Greece; Hastened death; Hopelessness; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHEDULE OF ATTITUDES TOWARD HASTENED DEATH; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 43249110991     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764008089857     Document Type: Article

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