Dying patients' thoughts of ending their lives: A pilot study of rural new Mexico

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 34-44

  Birkholz, Gloria ^a,d   Gibson, Joan McIver ^b,c   Clements, Paul T ^d  

^a College of Nursing ^*

^b HSC Ethics Program

^c Family and Community Medicine

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SUICIDE; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALE; NEW MEXICO; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL HEALTH; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SUICIDE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 4644327331     PISSN: 02793695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/02793695-20040801-05     Document Type: Article

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