Cancer patients' attitudes to final events in life: Wish for death, attitudes to cessation of treatment, suicide and euthanasia
作者:
Cathy Owen,
Christopher Tennant,
John Levi,
Michael Jones,
期刊:
Psycho‐Oncology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 1-9
ISSN:1057-9249
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/pon.2960030103
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractOne hundred patients with cancer were interviewed regarding their attitude to a range of final life events in both their current real and hypothetical future circumstances. Patients who anticipated a future possible role for the more passive options of wishing death to come early or ceasing all treatment, were more hopeless and had a reduced quality of life. Patients however who anticipated a role for the more active options of suicide and/or euthanasia were less fatalistic and did not report a reduced quality of life. The desire for suicide was particularly positively related to younger age, a personal psychiatric past history, and a number of treatment‐related variables reflecting increased patient autonom
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