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: Siew Tzuh Tang, Wen-Chi Chou, Wen-Cheng Chang, Jen-Shi Chen, Chia-Hsun Hsieh, Fur-Hsing Wen, Shih-Chi Chung Source Type: research
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