The schedule of attitudes toward hastened death : Measuring desire for death in terminally ill cancer patients
✍ Scribed by Barry Rosenfeld; William Breitbart; Michele Galietta; Monique Kaim; Julie Funesti-Esch; Hayley Pessin; Christian J. Nelson; Robert Brescia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
BACKGROUND.
The authors examined the reliability and validity of the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death (SAHD), a self-report measure of desire for death previously validated in a population of individuals with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), among terminally ill patients with cancer.
METHODS.
The authors interviewed 92 terminally ill cancer patients, all with a life expectancy of Ͻ 6 months, after admission to a palliative care hospital. Patients were administered the SAHD, a clinician-rated measure of desire for death (the Desire for Death Rating Scale [DDRS]), and several measures of physical and psychosocial well-being.