Associations of prognostic‐awareness‐transition patterns with emotional distress and quality of life during terminally ill cancer patients' last 6 months of life
Abstract:Objective: Unprecedently investigate associations of prognostic-awarenesstransition patterns with (changes in) depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and quality of life (QOL) during cancer patients' last 6 months.
Methods:In this secondary analysis study, 334 cancer patients in their last 6 months transitioned between four prognostic-awareness states (unknown and not wanting to know, unknown but wanting to know, inaccurate awareness, and accurate awareness), thus constituting three transition patterns: mainta… Show more
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