Update: Fear of Death

Penson, Richard T.; Partridge, Rosamund A.; Shah, Muhammad Arif; Giansiracusa, David F.; Chabner, Bruce A.; Lynch, Thomas J.

doi:10.1634/theoncologist.10-2-160

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“…Individuals facing EOL describe many fears; one fear is of inadequate pain control and another is of death itself [28][29][30]. Developmental age influenced the use of antianxiety medications in this study.…”

Section: Physical Symptoms At Eolmentioning

confidence: 78%

End-of-life experiences in adolescents dying with cancer

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Skiles

Pradhan

et al. 2009

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Section: Physical Symptoms At Eolmentioning

confidence: 78%

End-of-life experiences in adolescents dying with cancer

Bell

Skiles

Pradhan

et al. 2009

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“…Psychological symptoms may include anxiety [5], depression [6], and fear of dying [7]. Patients may be unable to return to work after completion of treatments [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

The burden of brain tumor: a single-institution study on psychological patterns in caregivers

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Quality of life and well-being in caregivers are usually partly neglected since all attention is focused on patients and the way they react to the illness. Carers also usually neglect their own needs, especially when the illness of the patient is as complex as a brain tumor. The aim of this study is to investigate how caregivers deal with a diagnosis of brain tumor in their relatives and how they manage their quality of life and psychosocial well-being. One hundred primary caregivers of patients with brain tumors were interviewed and were asked to fill in self-administered questionnaires detecting multidimensional levels of quality of life, anxiety, depression, and psychosocial reaction to the patient's illness. Data were related with some functional and psychosocial information collected about the patient's disease. Caregivers try to react to the illness of their relatives by mobilizing their physical reaction and growing their self-esteem, but they live with a clinically significant impairment of their quality of life, and experience a deep level of anxiety and depression. The caregivers' burden appears mainly in their ability to provide care and in financial strain. The length of disease and the functional status of patients significantly influence caregivers' psychosocial well-being. Despite the appearance they want to show their affected relatives, caregivers suffer from deep limitation in their quality of life. The relevance of caregivers' burden suggests the importance of psychological support to improve reaction to the illness.

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“…Physiological effects such as seizures, cognitive and personality changes, fatigue, pain, weakness, headaches, sensory impairment, loss of muscle control, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, hair loss, cognitive impairment (e.g., memory loss, defective motor skills, and reduced speed), immunodeficiencies, incontinence, language impairment, and dysphagia can be brought on by a BT and its treatment, and this may compound the stress experienced by this population [12,19,24,[28][29][30]. Psychological stress, in turn, may include anxiety, [21], depression [26], and fear of dying [22]. Both the physiological and psychological aspects add to the stress experienced by patients with BTs.…”

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confidence: 99%