SynthesisPalliative medicine2017
Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review of measurement instruments.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The association between social connectedness and euthanasia and assisted suicide and related constructs: systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Beyond the surface: Exploring differing aspects of wishes to hasten death in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- Exploring the underlying structural mechanisms and whole-person perspectives on the desire for hastened death in patients with terminal cancer: A qualitative study.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- Patient Dignity in Long-Term Recovery among Survivors of Acute Respiratory Failure: A Prospective Cohort Study.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
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- SAHD-10: Development and initial validation of a short version of the Schedule of Attitudes Toward Hastened Death based on a large multinational sample.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
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- A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review.BMC medical ethics · 2024Review
- Definition and validation of the nursing diagnosis label "wish to die": a research protocol.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Understanding why patients request euthanasia when it is illegal: a qualitative study in palliative care units on the personal and practical impact of euthanasia requests.Palliative care and social practice · 2022Article
- Life worth living: cross-sectional study on the prevalence and determinants of the wish to die in elderly patients hospitalized in an internal medicine ward.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- The Relationship of Palliative Care With Assisted Dying Where Assisted Dying is Lawful: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2020Article
- The desire to die in palliative care: a sequential mixed methods study to develop a semi-structured clinical approach.BMC palliative care · 2020Article
- Describing Complexity in Palliative Home Care Through HexCom: A Cross-Sectional, Multicenter Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with advanced conditions may present a wish to hasten death. Assessing this wish is complex due to the nature of the phenomenon and the difficulty of conceptualising it.
aimTo identify and analyse existing instruments for assessing the wish to hasten death and to rate their reported psychometric properties.
designSystematic review based on PRISMA guidelines. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments checklist was used to evaluate the methodological quality of validation studies and the measurement properties of the instrument described. DATA SOURCES: The CINAHL, PsycINFO, Pubmed and Web of Science databases were searched from inception to November 2015.
resultsA total of 50 articles involving assessment of the wish to hasten death were included. Eight concerned instrument validation and were evaluated using COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments criteria. They reported data for between two and seven measurement properties, with ratings between fair and excellent. Of the seven instruments identified, the Desire for Death Rating Scale or the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death feature in 48 of the 50 articles. The Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death is the most widely used and is the instrument whose psychometric properties have been most often analysed. Versions of the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death are available in five languages other than the original English.
conclusionThis systematic review has analysed existing instruments for assessing the wish to hasten death. It has also explored the methodological quality of studies that have examined the measurement properties of these instruments and offers ratings of the reported properties. These results will be useful to clinicians and researchers with an interest in a phenomenon of considerable relevance to advanced patients.
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