- Section 1 The worldwide status of palliative care
- Section 2 The challenge of palliative medicine
- Section 3 Service delivery issues in palliative care
- Section 4 The interdisciplinary team
- Section 5 Ethical issues
- Section 6 Communication and palliative medicine
- Section 7 Assessment tools and Informatics
- Section 8 Common symptoms and disorders
- Section 9 Common symptoms and disorders: pain
- Section 10 Common symptoms and disorders: gastrointestinal symptoms
- Section 11 Common symptoms and disorders: skin problems
- Section 12 Issues in populations with cancer
- Section 13 Cancer pain syndromes
- Section 14 Cancer-associated disorders
- Section 15 Issues in populations with non-cancer illnesses
- Section 16 Issues of the very young and the very old
- Section 17 Psychosocial and spiritual issues in palliative medicine
- Section 18 The terminal phase
- Section 19 Research in palliative medicine
- 19.1 Research in palliative care
- 19.2 The principles of evidence-based medicine
- 19.3 Understanding clinical trials in palliative care research
- 19.4 Qualitative research
- 19.5 Research into psychosocial issues
- 19.6 Ethical issues in palliative care research
- 19.7 Quality of life in palliative care: principles and practice
- 19.8 Health services research in palliative care and end-of-life care
- 19.9 Clinical audit in palliative medicine
(p. 1182) Research into psychosocial issues
- Chapter:
- (p. 1182) Research into psychosocial issues
- Author(s):
David W. Kissane
, Annette F. Street
, Erin E. Schweers
, and Thomas M. Atkinson
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0195
Psychological, existential, spiritual, and social issues cause much suffering and deserve extensive study to understand these concerns more fully and to intervene more effectively. Themes that abound include communication, coping, ethics, the family, caregiving, quality of life, death and dying, psychiatric disorders, suffering, and the many expressions of distress. Many study designs are possible to explore these themes, often with complementary quantitative and qualitative components. This chapter summarizes the psychometric properties of many of the instruments that are commonly employed in such studies and the computer-assisted software packages that assist qualitative analyses. The goal is to strengthen research design and optimize research outcomes to benefit the discipline.
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- Section 1 The worldwide status of palliative care
- Section 2 The challenge of palliative medicine
- Section 3 Service delivery issues in palliative care
- Section 4 The interdisciplinary team
- Section 5 Ethical issues
- Section 6 Communication and palliative medicine
- Section 7 Assessment tools and Informatics
- Section 8 Common symptoms and disorders
- Section 9 Common symptoms and disorders: pain
- Section 10 Common symptoms and disorders: gastrointestinal symptoms
- Section 11 Common symptoms and disorders: skin problems
- Section 12 Issues in populations with cancer
- Section 13 Cancer pain syndromes
- Section 14 Cancer-associated disorders
- Section 15 Issues in populations with non-cancer illnesses
- Section 16 Issues of the very young and the very old
- Section 17 Psychosocial and spiritual issues in palliative medicine
- Section 18 The terminal phase
- Section 19 Research in palliative medicine
- 19.1 Research in palliative care
- 19.2 The principles of evidence-based medicine
- 19.3 Understanding clinical trials in palliative care research
- 19.4 Qualitative research
- 19.5 Research into psychosocial issues
- 19.6 Ethical issues in palliative care research
- 19.7 Quality of life in palliative care: principles and practice
- 19.8 Health services research in palliative care and end-of-life care
- 19.9 Clinical audit in palliative medicine