Courses of change in good emotional preparedness for death and accurate prognostic awareness and their associations with psychological distress and quality of life in terminally ill cancer patients ’ last year of life

Emotional preparedness for death is a distinct but related concept to prognostic awareness (PA). Both allow patients to prepare psychologically and interpersonally for death but they have primarily been examined in cross-sectional studies.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research