Dying in palliative care units and in hospital: A comparison of the quality of life of terminal cancer patients.

Viney, Linda L.; Walker, Beverly M.; Robertson, Tineke; Lilley, Betsy

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.62.1.157

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“…48 If the aim of a hospice is to help people come to terms with death, for example, then existing quality of life measures may not be meaningful or useful, as they may not assess this. 48 If the aim of a hospice is to help people come to terms with death, for example, then existing quality of life measures may not be meaningful or useful, as they may not assess this.…”

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The impact of different models of specialist palliative care on patients' quality of life: a systematic literature review

Salisbury¹,

Bosanquet²,

Wilkinson

et al. 1999

Palliat Med

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This study set out to systematically review the research evidence about the impact of alternative models of specialist palliative care on the quality of life of patients. Eighty-six relevant papers were identified and reviewed, including 22 descriptive and 27 comparative studies. We found few comparative trials of reasonable quality. There was some evidence that in-patient palliative care provided better pain control than home care of conventional hospital care, but this research was dated and open to criticism. Research on palliative home care teams and co-ordinating nurses has demonstrated limited impact on quality of life over conventional care for patients dying at home. These negative findings may be due to the limitations of the assessment tools used. There is a need for larger studies to provide clear evidence as to whether specialist palliative care services provide improvements in patients' quality of life. This review does not exclude the possibility that models of care might be justifiable on other grounds such as patient preference or cost-effectiveness.

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Section: Using Tools Which Reflect Aimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of different models of specialist palliative care on patients' quality of life: a systematic literature review

Salisbury¹,

Bosanquet²,

Wilkinson

et al. 1999

Palliat Med

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“…One exception is the work of Viney and her colleagues (Viney, 1983a(Viney, , 1983b(Viney, , 1984Viney, Walker, Robertson, Lilley, & Ewan, 1994;Viney & Westbrook, 1976;Westbrook, 1976), who applied the Gottschalk-Gleser Death Anxiety scale to seriously ill patients. With Kelly's (1955) theory of personal constructs as a background, they developed new scales to assess state anxiety.…”

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Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death: Psychometric Considerations

2003

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In the 50 years of research in death attitudes, clear gains have been made in the measurement of death concerns and competencies, leading to the development and validation of several scales whose more extensive use could improve the conceptual yield of research in this area. In this article, we review these promising instruments, focusing on nine general questionnaires for measuring death anxiety, fear, threat, depression, and acceptance, and four specialized measures of death self-efficacy and coping, readiness for death, and desire for hastened death. We also offer an orientation to nonquestionnaire based techniques for the assessment of death attitudes (e.g., narrative measures, repertory grids, behavioral observations, death personifications and drawings), and close with a note on international developments that hold promise for improved cultural awareness of the role of death attitudes in human life.

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“…Good test-retest reliability would not be appropriate for these measures of transient psychological states. Evidence of their criterion and construct validity has been provided by many studies, showing the correlation of the scale scores with self reports and psychiatric ratings of these states and with other measures of the same psychological states, including psychophysiological indices, discrimination of appropriate samples of research participants and situations, and responsivity to psychoactive drugs (Gottschalk, 1982;Gottschalk et al, 1986;Viney, 1983a;Viney, Henry, Walker, & Crooks, 1989;Viney et al, 1994).…”

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The Impact of Group Work on Offender Adolescents

Viney¹,

Henry²,

Campbell³

2001

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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The impact of personal construct and psychodynamic group work on the psychosocial functioning of offender adolescents was evaluated. The repeated measures design involved 3 data collections. Data from 102 participants included measures of 5 pairs of maturational processes and 5 psychological states. Group work was effective immediately after terminating treatment in increasing helpful maturational processes and in reducing the less helpful maturational processes. The group work was also effective to some extent in reducing less helpful psychological states. The implications of this research for future interventions and its evaluation are discussed.

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Dying in palliative care units and in hospital: A comparison of the quality of life of terminal cancer patients.

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

The impact of different models of specialist palliative care on patients' quality of life: a systematic literature review

The impact of different models of specialist palliative care on patients' quality of life: a systematic literature review

Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death: Psychometric Considerations

The Impact of Group Work on Offender Adolescents

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