Attitude to Death - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment.

6 Oct 2008 CONTEXT: Talking about death can be difficult. Without evidence that end-of-life discussions improve patient outcomes, physicians must balance their desire to honor patient autonomy against a concern of inflicting psychological harm. OBJECTIVE: To ... Read more...

Psychologic effects of poor outcome and professional liability actions on physicians.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: Little is known about the psychologic effects on obstetricians and gynecologists of adverse maternal or fetal outcome and malpractice claims. METHODS: An anonymous survey regarding the psychologic effects of professional liability ... Read more...

The implications of death for health: a terror management health model for behavioral health promotion.

29 Sep 2008 This article introduces a terror management health model (TMHM). The model integrates disparate health and social psychology literatures to elucidate how the conscious and nonconscious awareness of death can influence the motivational orientation ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Attitude to Death'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rethinking suicide prevention in Asian countries. 6 Nov 2008
• Dying well. 30 Oct 2008
• Dying well. 30 Oct 2008
• Dying well. 30 Oct 2008
• Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment. 6 Oct 2008
• Psychological effects of poor outcome on physicians. 29 Sep 2008
• Psychologic effects of poor outcome and professional liability actions on physicians. 29 Sep 2008
• [Damien Hirst and medicine. The physical impossibility of death a symbol for our will to live] 29 Sep 2008
• The implications of death for health: a terror management health model for behavioral health promotion. 29 Sep 2008
• Missed opportunities for interval empathy in lung cancer communication. 20 Sep 2008
• [Definition of death according to the Vatican] 15 Sep 2008
• Internship in Africa: death and life. 31 Aug 2008
• Where I live. 31 Aug 2008
• The body in two parts: one--growth and two--death. 30 Aug 2008
• Thoughts on the goals of psychosocial palliative care. 30 Aug 2008
• A qualitative study of the experiences of women with metastatic breast cancer. 30 Aug 2008
• Caregivers' differing needs across key experiences of the advanced cancer disease trajectory. 30 Aug 2008
• Obituaries, death and dying. 30 Aug 2008
• The "forgotten bereaved." Grief over losing an adult sibling may go unacknowledged. 30 Aug 2008
• [Pediatric hospice services provide respite care in daily life] 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Attitude to Death'

Definition: Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.

Descriptor UI: D001293

Alternative terms: Attitude to Death; Death, Attitude to; Attitudes to Death; Death, Attitudes to;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.100.125; N05.300.125;

History Note: 74