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Attitude to Death (0):
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Attitude to Death
Dental update (38)6 2011
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Community nurses have a central role in the provision of palliative and end-of-life care; helping people to die with dignity is an important component of this care. To conserve dignity, care should comprise a broad range of actions addressing the distress that might impact on the patient's sense of d...
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PMID: 21642928
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As more individuals live past age 100, it is important for health professionals to better understand characteristics important to the mental health of the oldest-old in our society. Few studies have been conducted on mental health in this group, but current literature suggests these individuals are v...
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PMID: 21485976
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The practising midwife (14)3 2011
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Child death before term affects many parents. This article is the story of one of those circumstances, but quite a rare one. Revd. Daniel Richards talks of how his daughter Abigail grew to five months before it was discovered she had anencephaly. The article will discuss: Narrative of the situation:...
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PMID: 21473319
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The practising midwife (14)3 2011
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Growing public interest in the phenomenon of mediumship, particularly among bereaved persons, suggests the need for renewed controlled studies of mediums, both to provide potential clients with criteria for judging mediums and to help researchers learn whether they can produce specific and accurate...
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PMID: 21206241
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Soins. Gerontologie ()88 2011
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French prisons are experiencing the same phenomenon observed across western societies, that of an ageing population. In addition to the structural inability of prisons to deal with inmates' loss of autonomy, it is the very sense in keeping highly vulnerable and dependent people behind bars which shou...
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PMID: 21526538
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I evaluate the extent to which ethnic disparities in advance care planning reflect cultural and religious attitudes and experience with the painful deaths of loved ones. Data are from a sample of 293 chronically ill older adults who are seeking care at one of two large medical centers in urban New J...
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PMID: 21748919
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This article explores, using Wilensky's Model of Professionalization, the emergence of professional organizations within the thanatology. The authors review the history of four organizations--The Foundation of Thanatology, Ars Moriendi, The Forum for Death Education and Counseling (now the Associatio...
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PMID: 21842661
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Support groups are often used to help individuals cope with challenging and unusual life circumstances through narration. Yet, little is known about specific meta-communication within a support group setting and in what ways these interactions may benefit participants. This study uncovers narrative t...
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PMID: 21842663
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Professionals for Assisted Dying is a new organisation that wants to clarify the legal rights of terminally ill people and their carers.
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PMID: 21329129
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We conduct a textual analysis of memorial websites created by mothers who have experienced a loss due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Using an online Internet ethnographic approach, we reviewed a series of 20 sites in an attempt to analyze the motivations of the site creators as manifested i...
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PMID: 21748920
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The aim of this study was to identify and describe resilience qualities in families after losing a child. Questionnaires, including an open-ended question, were utilized to collect data independently from the parents and siblings of the deceased in 89 Belgian families. The results in...
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PMID: 22010372
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Six clinical psychologists were interviewed regarding their experiences with client suicide. Interviewee's responses offered the following insights: (a) all their experiences met the criteria for prolonged grief; (b) the respective work settings significantly influenced the clinician...
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PMID: 22010371
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Journal of Trauma (69)6 2010
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End-of-life care for trauma patients requires unique practice guidelines because it is fraught with difficulties not encountered in end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. The purpose of this project was to analyze survey information from nurses and physicians regarding preferences for end-of-...
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PMID: 21150531
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The practising midwife (13)11 2010
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Attitudes to questions of whether physician-assisted dying should be legalised in the UK, reflect one of the greatest challenges to moral stance in health care for both individuals and professional bodies, not least as indicated by public opinion. However, public opinion is a seductively deceptive n...
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PMID: 20665117
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I intend to describe an issue of the Dutch euthanasia practice that is not common knowledge. After some general introductory descriptions, by way of formulating a frame of reference, I shall describe the effects of this practice on patients, physicians and families, followed by a more philosophical...
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PMID: 20668949
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In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate "agree to disagree". This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more co...
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PMID: 20676776
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I would have written an academic paper rehearsing the arguments for and against legalization of physician-assisted suicide: autonomy and the avoidance of pain and suffering on the pro side, the wrongness of killing, the integrity of the medical profession, and the risk of abuse, the "slippery slope,...
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PMID: 20711678
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The Lancet (376)9751 2010
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Hämostaseologie (30 Suppl 1) 2010
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We talked to about 120 patients and relatives every year in more than 10000 psychotherapeutic talks. 70 of our patients were HIV-infected. For about half of them we took care until they died on AIDS or of liver-disease. The other 50 patients (HIV-negative) were also distressed enormously. At the beg...
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PMID: 21042670
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Annals of Internal Medicine (153)7 2010
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MEDICC Review (12)4 2010
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The discrepancy between patients' preferred and actual place of death highlights the dilemma inherent in achieving their preferences for home death. Research on determinants of home death has been limited largely by focusing on individual-level factors and somewhat on health care resources at the pr...
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PMID: 20580525
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Klinichna khirurhiia / Ministerstvo okhorony zdorov'ia Ukrainy, Naukove tovarystvo khirurhiv Ukrainy ()9 2010
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We believe that death ends everything, the more we fear from death. All religions want to cut this fear. They highlight that present life continues and human spirit lives further on, in another postmortem dimension. Authors evaluated death of 142 patients, among which 45 (32%) died at home, 74 (52%)...
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PMID: 21090363
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Terror management theory posits that people tend to respond defensively to reminders of death, including worldview defense, self-esteem striving, and suppression of death thoughts. Seven experiments examined whether trait mindfulness-a disposition characterized by receptive attention to present expe...
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PMID: 20658848
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (29)7 2010
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Our purpose for this study was to explore the experience of grief and loss among incarcerated women using a phenomenological method. Our study approach followed van Manen's method of phenomenology and Munhall's description of existential lifeworlds. Our analysis revealed four existential lifeworlds:...
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PMID: 20581074
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Journal of Clinical Oncology (28)18 2010
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Of the sample, 35% reported at least mild depressive symptoms, with 16% reporting moderate to severe depressive symptoms that persisted in at least one third of such individuals. Moderate to severe depressive symptoms were almost three times more common in the final 3 months of life than > or = 1 ye...
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PMID: 20479397
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We have virtually no access to individual terrorists; only their actions are visible. The founders of the Italian terrorist group, the Red Brigades, on the other hand, have written about their experiences and have exhaustively explained their motivations. The author's premise is that these autobiogr...
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PMID: 20590927
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)6 2010
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)6 2010
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)6 2010
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)6 2010
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)6 2010
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About 340 infants die suddenly and unexpectedly in the UK every year (Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths 2005a), and one of the recommendations made in the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry final report (Kennedy 2001) was that infants found dead or moribund at home must be taken to emergency de...
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PMID: 20608398
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To explore the meanings of self-injury and overdosing, and the relationship of each to the other, for women who have fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder.
Four women with a history of both self-injury and overdosing were recruited through a local psychotherapy servic...
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PMID: 20021731
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Minerva Pediatrica (62)3 Suppl 1 2010
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The field of neonatology presents a fascinating context in which hugely important decisions have to be made on the basis of physicians' assessments of the long term consequences of various possible choices. In many cases such assessments cannot be derived from a consensual professional opinion; the...
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PMID: 21089732
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British Journal of Social Psychology (49)Pt 2 2010
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Research on gambling, and risk taking in general, has focused primarily on approach-related motivations. The current study examined the avoidance of existential anxiety as a possible source of risky decision making and behaviour. The authors hypothesized that participants reminded of their own morta...
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PMID: 20181321
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We reasoned that a skin biopsy increases patient compliance by unconsciously stimulating mortality salience. To study this hypothesis, trust toward doctors, authoritarian personality, mood, attitude toward recommendations, and intention to accept recommendations were compared be-tween skin biopsy an...
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PMID: 20526540
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Prior research has shown the importance of humanness in shaping one's social identity, but no research has examined why this is the case. The present article reveals that humanizing the ingroup serves a terror management function. In 3 studies, Italian (Studies 1 and 2) and American (Study 3) partic...
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PMID: 20438222
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The gathering of mortality data in general practice is useful and important; it provides a vital insight into local health needs, highlights gaps in service provision and educates those working in general practice. This article considers the mortality rates in Chorley Wood Health Centre between 2008...
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PMID: 20453825
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The primary aim of this study is to clarify the participant-evaluated usefulness of an outreach program by a palliative care team. The palliative care team participated in a community conference and clinical activity in collaboration with a community home care clinic once a month during one year. Th...
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PMID: 20495317
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Mode of parental death and offspring age at parental death are associated with offspring long-term risk for suicide and hospitalization for specific psychiatric disorders....
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PMID: 20431471
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Although biologically based sex differences in the smoking patterns, epidemiology, biomedical markers, and survival rates associated with lung cancer are well documented, examinations of psychosocial gender differences are scarce.
This cross-sectional study examined gender differences in psychosocia...
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PMID: 20435276
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Das Gesundheitswesen (72)4 2010
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International euthanasia debates focussing on "autonomous dying" in the 1980s corresponded with a general change in the health-care system: availability of new technical means with an analogous medical-ethic understanding of human suffering and dying. This change is part of a general development fro...
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PMID: 20229456
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The practising midwife (13)4 2010
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The authors examined the impact of the wish to die on mortality over a 5-year period, stratified by baseline depressive status (i.e., major, minor, and no depression diagnosis). The authors also examined whether a depression care management intervention would minimize these relationships.
Longitudin...
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PMID: 19910882
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Palliative Medicine (24)3 2010
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In their first year of work, newly qualified doctors will care for patients who have palliative care needs or who are dying, and they will need the skills to do this throughout their medical career. The General Medical Council in the United Kingdom has given clear recommendations tha...
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PMID: 20176616
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