The relationship between quality of life and levels of hopelessness and depression in palliative care

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 730-736

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer patients; BDI; BHS; Psychological morbidity; SF 12

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL COMPONENT SCORE; METASTASIS; PHYSICAL COMPONENT SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SHORT FORM 12;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 51949111034     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20319     Document Type: Article

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