Belief in an afterlife, spiritual well-being and end-of-life despair in patients with advanced cancer

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 484-486

  McClain Jacobson, Colleen ^a   Rosenfeld, Barry ^a   Kosinski, Anne ^b   Pessin, Hayley ^b   Cimino, James E ^c   Breitbart, William ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Calvary Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterlife; Cancer; Hopelessness; Spirituality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SUICIDE; TERMINAL DISEASE; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; SUICIDE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 9644300877     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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