Understanding meaning in life interventions in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review and realist synthesis

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 798-813

  Guerrero Torrelles, Mariona ^a   Monforte Royo, Cristina ^a   Rodríguez Prat, Andrea ^a   Porta Sales, Josep ^a,b   Balaguer, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

advanced patients; desire to die; end of life care; Meaning in life; meaning in life intervention; palliative care; realist synthesis; systematic review; therapy; wish to die; wish to hasten death

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXISTENTIAL DISTRESS; HOPE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGOTHERAPY; MEANING IN LIFE INTERVENTION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPIRITUAL CARE; SPIRITUAL HEALING; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 85027479690     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216316685235     Document Type: Review

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