期刊
PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
卷 14, 期 6, 页码 499-507出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/026921600701536426
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anxiety; brain tumour; death; palliative; spouse
When a person is diagnosed with a severe disease, it seems plausible that existential questions and death anxiety are easily intensified. The aims of this study were to explore whether this is the case, to what extent patients and their next of kin experience death anxiety, and how these experiences are expressed. Following a purposive sampling technique, 20 patients with brain tumours and 15 of their next of kin took part in interviews. A content and context analysis were performed using a hermeneutic approach, in order to identify and analyse main categories. Six main categories common to patients and their next of kin emerged during the process: (1) emotional reactions that could be related to death anxiety and included general anxiety, anguish, sadness, hope and despair; (2) existential fear, existential anxiety and existential pain; (3) contradictions; (4) trigger situations; (5) coping strategies related to death anxiety; and (6) new values for life. Besides these categories, a further category emerged, experiences characteristic of the next of kin. The study shows that both the patients and their next of kin are preoccupied with existential thoughts and death anxiety. The problems are easily overlooked as the death anxiety is not always expressed directly. Staff need to be more aware of these situations in order to provide existential support.
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