ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2002
Relations between desire for early death, depressive symptoms and antidepressant prescribing in terminally ill patients with cancer.
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- Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review of measurement instruments.Palliative medicine · 2017Pooled it
- What lies behind the wish to hasten death? A systematic review and meta-ethnography from the perspective of patients.PloS one · 2012Pooled it
- A research study review of effectiveness of treatments for psychiatric conditions common to end-stage cancer patients: needs assessment for future research and an impassioned plea.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- Using item response theory (IRT) to reduce patient burden when assessing desire for hastened death.Psychological assessment · 2017Article
- Development of a short form of the Spanish schedule of attitudes toward hastened death in a palliative care population.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2017Article
- Incidence and risk factors for suicide and attempted suicide following a diagnosis of hematological malignancy.Cancer medicine · 2015Article
- The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) as a screening tool for depression and anxiety in non-advanced patients with solid or haematological malignancies on cure or follow-up.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014Article
- Japanese experience with milnacipran, the first serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor in Japan.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2007Article
- Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors.BMC family practice · 2006Review
- Suicides among Danish cancer patients 1971-1999.British journal of cancer · 2005Article
- Depression--the hidden symptom in advanced cancer.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2003Review
- Depression in terminally ill patients with cancer.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2002Article
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Abstract
Some patients with advanced cancer express the wish for an early death. This may be associated with depression. We examined the relations between depressive symptoms and desire for early death (natural or by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide) in 142 terminally ill patients with cancer being cared for by a specialist palliative care team. They completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire and answered four supplementary questions on desire for early death. Only 2 patients expressed a strong wish for death by some form of suicide or euthanasia. 120 denied that they ever wished for early release. The desire for early death correlated with depression scores. Depressive symptoms were common in the whole group but few were on antidepressant therapy. Better recognition and treatment of depression might improve the lives of people with terminal illness and so lessen desire for early death, whether natural or by suicide.
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