Attitude to Death

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Are you at peace?": one item to probe spiritual concerns at the end of life. 
  • A commentary: the role of religion and spirituality at the end of life. 
  • A comparison of attitudes toward length and quality of life between community-dwelling older adults and patients with advanced cancer. 
  • A like sufferer. 
  • An examination of the vulnerability hypothesis. 
  • Association between Dying Experience and Place of Death: Urban-Rural Differences among Older Chinese Adults. 
  • Attitudes of elderly patients and their families toward physician-assisted suicide. 
  • Attitudes of the American public toward organ donation after uncontrolled (sudden) cardiac death. 
  • Belief in life after death and mental health: findings from a national survey. 
  • Busy/dying. 
  • Changing preferences for survival after hospitalization with advanced heart failure. 
  • Childhood traumatic grief: a multi-site empirical examination of the construct and its correlates. 
  • Comprehensive care of the elderly patient with cancer. 
  • Death anxiety, dissent, and competence. 
  • Differences in types A and B behavior in response to acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians. 
  • Does writing about the bereavement lessen grief following sudden, unintentional death? 
  • End-of-Life Care Preference: Examination of Chinese Adults with Children and Those Who Lost Their Only Child. 
  • Enriching a classroom lesson on grief and loss. 
  • Evaluating Suicide Risk Using the Reasons for Dying-Reasons for Living (RFD-RFL) Index in a Military Psychiatric Inpatient Setting. 
  • Evolution in measuring the quality of dying. 
  • Factors considered important at the end of life by patients, family, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Family care in the coronary care unit: an analysis of clinical nurse specialist intervention. 
  • Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: an opportunity for meaning-making in bereavement. 
  • Grief, interrupted. 
  • Health care costs in the last week of life: associations with end-of-life conversations. 
  • How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients? 
  • Impact of childhood cancer on healthy school-age siblings. 
  • In search of a good death: observations of patients, families, and providers. 
  • Intentional sedation to unconsciousness at the end of life: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. 
  • Life Program: Pilot Testing a Palliative Psychology Group Intervention. 
  • Media portrayals of suicide. 
  • Mind the child: using interactive technology to improve child involvement in decision making about life-limiting illness. 
  • No heroic measures: how soon is too soon to stop? 
  • Nursing strategies to support family members of ICU patients at high risk of dying. 
  • Organ donation and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. 
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Newborns and Infants: From the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. 
  • Parental bereavement: Looking beyond grief. 
  • Patterns of religious practice and belief in the last year of life. 
  • Physicians' attitudes about involvement in lethal injection for capital punishment. 
  • Posttraumatic stress among young children after the death of a friend or acquaintance in a terrorist bombing. 
  • Preference for place of death in a continuing care retirement community. 
  • Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Promoting a good death for persons with dementia in nursing facilities: family caregivers' perspectives. 
  • Racial differences in hospice revocation to pursue aggressive care. 
  • Reducing suicidal ideation in depressed older primary care patients. 
  • Refinement of a Conceptual Model for Adolescent Readiness to Engage in End-of-Life Discussions. 
  • Relationship of depression to death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure. 
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients. 
  • Religious behaviors and death anxiety in later life. 
  • Religious concepts of brain death and associated problems. 
  • Response to the 'Consensus Statement of the Working Group on Roman Catholic Approaches to Determining Appropriate Critical Care'. 
  • Right to die issue raises complicated ethical questions. 
  • Semantic and moral debates about hastening death: a survey of bioethicists. 
  • Seriously ill patients' discussions of preparation and life completion: an intervention to assist with transition at the end of life. 
  • Spiritual needs of couples facing pregnancy termination because of fetal anomalies. 
  • The Final frontier. 
  • The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach 
  • The function of self-esteem in terror management theory and sociometer theory: comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). 
  • To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. 
  • Toward population-based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing stakeholder agreement. 
  • Treating maladaptive grief and posttraumatic stress symptoms in orphaned children in Tanzania: group-based trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy. 
  • Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations. 
  • What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care? 
  • Writing projects: lessening undergraduates' unique suicidal bereavement. 
  • [End-of-life care in pediatrics: much more than a fight against entropy]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Curlin, Farr A, Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute