Dignity therapy: Preliminary cross-cultural findings regarding implementation among Japanese advanced cancer patients

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 768-769

  Akechi, Tatsuo ^a   Akazawa, Terukazu ^b   Komori, Yasunaga ^c   Morita, Tatsuya ^d   Otani, Hiroyuki ^d   Shinjo, Takuya ^e   Okuyama, Toru ^f   Kobayashi, Mika ^g  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Minamitsurugun Fujikawaguchikomachi   (Japan)

^c AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Kobe College   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGNITY THERAPY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LETTER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TERMINAL CARE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF;

EID: 84863200257     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216312437214     Document Type: Letter

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