Demographic characteristics | Number (total n = 9) |
---|---|
Age (years) | |
1–17 | 0 |
18–64 | 4 |
65–79 | 3 |
≥80 | 2 |
Sex | |
Male | 6 |
Female | 3 |
Educational level | |
Elementary or lower | 1 |
Lower secondary | 3 |
Higher secondary | 1 |
Higher education/university | 4 |
Estimated income | |
Low | 0 |
Average | 6 |
High | 3 |
Living with regular partner at time of death | |
Yes | 7 |
No | 2 |
Clinical characteristics | |
Main diagnosis | |
Cancer | 7 |
Multiple sclerosis | 1 |
Decompensated heart failure | 1 |
Global symptom distressa | |
Case 1 | 1.0 |
Case 2 | 2.0 |
Case 3 | 1.9 |
Case 4 | 1.2 |
Case 5 | 2.2 |
Case 6 | 1.1 |
Case 7 | 1.8 |
Case 8 | 1.0 |
Case 9 | 1.4 |
↵a Measured using the MSAS-GDI (scores out of a total of 4). Overall score per patient, representing global symptom distress, is the mean of the item scores for four psychological symptoms (frequency items for worry, sad, irritable, and nervous), and seven physical symptoms (distress items for lack of appetite, lack of energy, feeling drowsy, constipation, dry mouth, difficulty breathing, and pain).