Objective: When parents are diagnosed with cancer, children experience significant distress.
There is little information regarding the nature of this distress and how children cope, …

OBJECTIVE: Depression is common in patients with late stage cancer. This study was
carried out to investigate whether depression is associated with survival, measuring physical …

End of life care or palliative care has been acknowledged as important over the last 30
years and it is essential that doctors have core training in palliative care during their …

Objective To explore the individual experiences of those who had experienced the death of
a parent(s) before the age of 18, and investigate how such experiences were perceived to …

Depression is a common symptom in patients with advanced cancer and patients who are
depressed may also have physical symptoms which are difficult to palliate and which improve …

Biographical accounts of illness offer useful insights into the social and adaptive processes
of living with chronic illness. Yet there are concerns that the underlying theoretical …

This study was conducted to explore the interrelationships among caregiver burden,
emotional status and quality of life (QoL) in caregivers of lung cancer patients, and to identify …

BACKGROUND: Children whose parents are diagnosed with advanced cancer are found to
experience high levels of distress. Research has reported communication and information …

Depression is difficult to diagnose in the terminally ill patient. As a result, it frequently is not
treated. This has can have an adverse effect on quality of life and make the palliation of …

This study explored how elderly people living in the community perceive issues around death,
dying, and the end of life using a qualitative grounded theory approach. Forty individuals …