Pathways to distress: The multiple determinants of depression, hopelessness, and the desire for hastened death in metastatic cancer patients

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 562-569

  Rodin, Gary ^a,b   Lo, Christopher ^a,b   Mikulincer, Mario ^c   Donner, Allan ^d   Gagliese, Lucia ^e   Zimmermann, Camilla ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Depression; Desire for hastened death; Hopelessness; Oncology; Palliative care; Psychosocial risk factors

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MENTAL HEALTH; MODEL TEST; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ONTARIO; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPIRITUALITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 58349087002     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.037     Document Type: Article

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