Prevalence and factors associated with desire for death in patients with advanced disease: Results from a portuguese cross-sectional study

Psychosomatics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 451-457

  Julião, Miguel ^a,b   Barbosa, António ^a,c   Oliveira, Fátima ^b   Nunes, Baltazar ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b Faculty of Medicine of the Univ of Lisbon ^*  (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COHABITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DESIRE FOR DEATH; DESIRE FOR DEATH RATING SCALE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; DROWSINESS; DSM-IV; DYSPNEA; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL AND ANXIETY DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; SINGLE (MARITAL STATUS); SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; WIDOW;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP STAGES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84883769616     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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