ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The effects of narrative care combined with life review on psychological distress, meaning in life, and quality of life in advanced cancer patients receiving hospice care: a randomized clinical trial.
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- Family Bonds at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Meaning Reconstruction Through Intergenerational Relationships Among Older Adults With Advanced Lung Cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Development and Psychometric Validation of the Palliative Care Experience Scale (PCES): An Experience-Oriented Assessment Instrument.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Article
- "Name it to tame it": piloting a narrative medicine clinical intervention for adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objective: To investigate the effects of narrative care combined with life review among patients with advanced cancer. Methods: Ninety patients who met the inclusion criteria were recruited from the palliative medicine ward of a tertiary-level oncology specialty hospital in Xinjiang and the community hospitals hosted by our hospital from January 2024 to January 2025. This study is a randomized controlled single-blind study. They were randomly divided into control and experimental groups ( Results: Eighty-three participants completed the study. No statistically significant differences were observed in psychological distress, scores for the total meaning of life scale and its individual dimensions, and scores for the total quality of life scale and its individual dimensions between the two groups before the intervention ( Conclusion: Narrative nursing combined with life review can effectively alleviate the psychological suffering, increase the sense of meaning of life to a certain extent, and improve the quality of survival among patients with advanced cancer. It is recommended to incorporate it into routine hospice care practice, through structured life review guidance, to help patients affirm their self-worth and enhance their dignity and calm at the end of life.
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