Death Anxiety, Disclosure Behaviors, and Attitudes of Oncologists toward Terminal Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joyce B Cochrane (College of New Jersey, corresponding author), Marvin R Levy (Temple University), John E Fryer (Temple University), Carole A Oglesby (0000-0001-9195-0674, Temple University) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 1991-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/ltb4-darh-ah13-tgn1 |
| OpenAlex | W2045916563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 24 |
Relationships among death anxiety, disclosure behaviors, and attitudes of oncologists toward terminal care were examined by means of a questionnaire responded to by ninety-nine members of the Oncology Society of New Jersey. Death anxiety scores were lower for oncologists than typically reported for physicians in general. Oncologists with low death anxiety scores related to dying patients more effectively than oncologists with high death anxiety scores. Short-term repeated exposure to dying patients resulted in comfort with dying patients while long-term repeated exposure resulted in discomfort. Disclosure to patients' families was clearly a more frequently reported behavior than disclosure to the patient. Oncologists who did not always disclose a terminal prognosis to the patient reported difficulty with disclosure, tried to avoid direct disclosure, and were not as comfortable with dying patients as with other patients
Anxiety · Death anxiety · Family medicine · Fear of death · Palliative care · Psychiatry · Terminal (telecommunication · Terminal care · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
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Chemotherapy, bioethics and social work
A decade beyond medical school
Death Distress among Two Samples of Lower and Higher Stress in Health Care Professionals
Suicide and Hastened Death
The TRIBE model
Correlates of Death Anxiety
Psychological Perspectives on Death
Studies in Death Attitudes
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Death Anxiety Scale Means, Standard Deviations, and Embedding
Fear of Death and Femininity
Death Education and Physicians' Attitudes toward Dying Patients
Attitudes toward Death, Anxiety, and Social Desirability
Physicians and the Terminal Patient
Death anxiety
Differences in Attitudes Toward Terminal Patients Among Selected Medical Specialties of Physicians
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |