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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the level of occupational stress and emotional intelligence in hospice volunteers.
METHODS: Participants were 158 hospice volunteers at hospitals in B city....
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes toward death according to personality types and to suggest the need to develop related hospice programs.
METHODS: Personality types were identified...
In Korea, modern art therapy was developed in the 1960s and 1970s in the form of supplementary activities for patients in psychiatry. Along with the foundation of the Korean Association...
PURPOSE: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of integrated palliative care intervention on quality of life in terminally ill patients.
METHODS: A comprehensive literature search was performed via PubMed,...
PURPOSE: Fatigue, energy loss, feeling of helplessness, poor appetite, pain besides general weakness are major symptoms presented to terminally ill cancer patients. These symptoms are similar to those that appeared...
PURPOSE: We aimed to investigate how serum vitamin D levels are related to survival of terminally ill cancer patients.
METHODS: From May 2012 through June 2013, a retrospective chart review was...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to examine how wish granting influences children with life-threatening medical conditions when it comes to their adaptation to disease with a focus on...
PURPOSE: As the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) began to cover home oxygen therapy (HOT) services from 2006, it is expected that the new services have contributed to overall positive...