Associations of prognostic awareness/acceptance with psychological distress, existential suffering, and quality of life in terminally ill cancer patients' last year of life

ConclusionKnowing one's poor prognosis and confronting one's impending death without full acceptance and adequate professional psycho‐spiritual support may harm more than benefit terminally ill cancer patients' psychological state, existential well‐being, and QOL. These findings highlight the importance of tailoring psycho‐spiritual support to cancer patients' psychological and existential needs when prognostic information is disclosed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Source: Psycho-Oncology - August 17, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Siew Tzuh Tang, Wen‐Cheng Chang, Jen‐Shi Chen, Wen‐Chi Chou, Chia‐Hsun Hsieh, Chen H. Chen Tags: Paper Source Type: research