Terminal Cancer and Suicide: The Health Care Professional's Dilemma.

Hansen, Leslie C.; McAleer, Charles A.

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ERIC Number: EJ292811

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Publication Date: 1984

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Terminal Cancer and Suicide: The Health Care Professional's Dilemma.

Hansen, Leslie C.; McAleer, Charles A.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v14 n3 p241-48 1983-84

Examined factors influencing the evaluation of a patient contemplating suicide, in a study of 138 health care professionals. Results showed subjects' evaluations, acceptance, and behavior were affected by their belief that the patient had cancer and/or was dying, and by their own degree of death anxiety. (JAC)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Cancer, Counselor Client Relationship, Evaluation Criteria, Health Personnel, Physician Patient Relationship, Psychological Evaluation, Suicide

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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