ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2022
Quality of Life for Older Cancer Patients: Relation of Psychospiritual Distress to Meaning-Making During Dignity Therapy.
Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03209440 (Palliative Care for Elderly Outpatients), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Empathic Communication in Specialty Palliative Care Encounters: An Analysis of Opportunities and Responses.Journal of palliative medicine · 2022Trial
- Resilience as a Mediator Between Demoralization and Quality of Life in Older Patients With Colorectal Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- Sharing "off-script": A qualitative analysis of providers' empathic self-disclosures during dignity therapy.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- The Palliative Arts: Envisioning a New Paradigm in Palliative Care.Journal of palliative medicine · 2025Article
- Communion supports dignity for older adults with serious cancer: Quantitative findings from dignity therapy intervention.Palliative & supportive care · 2024Article
- Rewriting the Story of Mid- and Late-Life Family Caregiving: Applying a Narrative Identity Framework.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- A qualitative meta-synthesis of patient dignity from the perspective of caregivers.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Dignity Therapy Training for the Healthcare Professionals: Lessons Learned From an Italian Experience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundNearly 500,000 older Americans die a cancer-related death annually. Best practices for seriously ill patients include palliative care that aids in promoting personal dignity. Dignity Therapy is an internationally recognized therapeutic intervention designed to enhance dignity for the seriously ill. Theoretically, Dignity Therapy provides opportunity for patients to make meaning by contextualizing their illness within their larger life story. The extent to which Dignity Therapy actually elicits meaning-making from patients, however, has not been tested.
aimThe current study examines (i) extent of patient meaning-making during Dignity Therapy, and (ii) whether baseline psychospiritual distress relates to subsequent meaning-making during Dignity Therapy.
designParticipants completed baseline self-report measures of psychospiritual distress (i.e., dignity-related distress, spiritual distress, quality of life), before participating in Dignity Therapy. Narrative analysis identified the extent of meaning-making during Dignity Therapy sessions.
participantsTwenty-five outpatients (
resultsNarrative analysis revealed all patients made meaning during Dignity Therapy but there was wide variation (i.e., 1-12 occurrences). Patients who made greater meaning were those who, at baseline, reported significantly higher psychospiritual distress, including greater dignity-related distress (
conclusionMeaning-making was found to be a central component of Dignity Therapy. Particularly, patients experiencing greater distress in facing their illness use the Dignity Therapy session to express how they have made meaning in their lives.
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