Importance of Psychological Research in Palliative Care: Barriers in its Development
Journal Title: Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Diseases in general, and particularly those that threat the continuation of life, may affect the person in diverse manners causing suffering or emotional distress. At the end of life, suffering may be caused by different dimensions (physical, psychological, social & spiritual), and these dimensions can contribute separately or in an accumulative way to the experience of suffering. Consequently, the problems related to one dimension can cause or increase others leading to total suffering (in patients and their families).
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Joaquín T. Limonero
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