Existential Concerns About Death: A Qualitative Study of Dying Patients in a Danish Hospice

被引：15

作者：

Moestrup, Lene ^{[1
]}

Hansen, Helle Ploug ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Southern Denmark, Inst Publ Hlth, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE | 2015年 / 32卷 / 04期

关键词：

patient perspectives; life-threatening diseases; support; afterlife; daily living; end of life; SPIRITUAL NEEDS; OF-LIFE; CANCER; CARE; ANXIETY; END; PERCEPTIONS; STRATEGIES; FAILURE; ILLNESS;

D O I：

10.1177/1049909114523828

中图分类号：

R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Research suggests that addressing dying patients' existential concerns can improve their quality of life. We aimed to illuminate dying patients' existential concerns about the impending death through a descriptive analysis of semistructured interviews with 17 patients in Danish hospices. The main findings demonstrated how the patients faced the imminent death without being anxious of death but sorrowful about leaving life. Some patients expressed that they avoided thinking about death. They wished to focus on positive aspects in their daily life. We argue that the patients' existential concerns could not be fully captured by Yalom's existential psychology or by Kubler-Ross's theory about death stages. Patients' complex concerns could be more fully explained taking an outset in Heidegger's phenomenological thinking.

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页码：427 / 436

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