"It makes you feel that somebody is out there caring": A qualitative study of intervention and control participants' perceptions of the benefits of taking part in an evaluation of dignity therapy for people with advanced cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 712-725

  Hall, Sue ^a   Goddard, Cassie ^a   Speck, Peter W ^a   Martin, Pauline ^b   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dignity Therapy; neoplasms; Palliative care; psychotherapy; qualitative; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGNITY THERAPY; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIP CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; MEMORY; MOUTH CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; THERAPY; THYROID CANCER; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875705149     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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