Background: Understanding what aspects of the dying process motivate terminally ill
individuals to consider hastening their death, can lead to improving end-of-life care …

Background Major obstacles exist in the care of patients at the end of life: lack of time, poor
or inadequate communication, and lack of knowledge in providing care. Three possible …

Context When a patient receives a cancer diagnosis, existential issues become more
compelling. Throughout the illness trajectory, patients with cancer are cared for in oncology …

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore health care staff's opinions about what
existential issues are important to patients with cancer and staff's responsibility when …

Purpose The present study explores patients' experiences of transitions during courses of
incurable cancer. So far, qualitative studies have primarily contributed with insight on what it …

Background Although alleviation of existential distress is important for terminally ill cancer
patients, the concept of existential distress has not been fully understood. The aim of this …

Background: Existential distress is a term used when patients who are coming towards the
end of their lives exhibit profound suffering, related particularly to their thoughts on life and …

Effective interventions can improve the care of patients with life threatening illness such as
cancer or HIV disease. Nurses face challenges in providing end-of-life care and respective …

Little is known about how nurses experience caring for dying patients. Yet, entering the
patient's world often involves dealing with death and dying and is a major challenge to …

PURPOSE: The aim was, through analysis of dialogues in supervision sessions, to explore if
health care staff in surgical care discussed existential issues when caring for cancer …