ArticleIllness, crises, and loss2025
Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Disparities and Stigma in Serious Illness and Palliative Care.
Article in Illness, crises, and loss, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Delivering Palliative Care in Mental Health Nursing Settings: A Systematic Review.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Navigating the landscape of paediatric haematological malignancies: a qualitative exploration of caregivers' experiences and palliative care integration in Pakistan.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Aging with leukemia: public health strategies for optimizing quality of life and palliative care in refractory cases.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- "What Good Is That?"-Perspectives of Using Telehealth to Discuss Serious Illness with Urban-Dwelling Low-Income Older Adults in Assisted Living.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Patients receiving palliative care experience stigma associated with their illness, personal identity, and healthcare utilization. These stigmas can occur at any stage of the disease process. Varying stigmas combine to cause palliative care patients to feel misunderstood, contribute to treatment barriers, and further negative stereotypes held by clinicians. Stigma surrounding palliative care patients stems from complex intersections of varied access to resources, familial and physical environment, socioeconomic status, mental health and disorders, and identity characteristics. This article examines the relationship between mental health stigma and palliative care through three pathways: stigma and barriers existing within healthcare, the tendency of this stigma to undermine social support, and the deferral of treatment-seeking in response to stigma. Recommendations to address and diminish stigmatization are presented, including advocacy, increased research and assessment, and contextual and intersectional awareness. Clinicians are also encouraged to turn to their colleagues for peer support and team-based care.
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