The experience of hopelessness in a population of Greek cancer patients receiving palliative care.

Background: Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has been translated and validated in many languages.

Aim: The validation of the English version of BHS in advanced cancer patients receiving palliative treatment in Greece.

Methods: The final sample was 112 advanced cancer patients.

Depression, hopelessness, and sleep in cancer patients' desire for death.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of clinical characteristics and risk factors for hastened death in advanced cancer patients.

Methods: Patients completed the Greek version of Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death (G-SAHD), a sleep quality measure, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), a Greek version of a depression inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a hopelessness scale, the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for the assessment of pain.

Patients: The final sample consisted of 102 terminally ill cancer patients attending a Palliative Care Unit.

Traumatic distress and positive changes in advanced cancer patients.

This study investigated the traumatic distress and posttraumatic growth in 58 advanced cancer patients receiving palliative treatment in a Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit. The patients completed the Greek version of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. Statistically significant associations were found among Impact of Events Scale-Revised-Greek "Relating to Others" (r = 0.

The relationship of subjective sleep quality, pain, and quality of life in advanced cancer patients.

Study Objectives: Cancer patients have been reported to complain about poor quality of sleep. This study evaluated the quality of sleep in this group, utilizing demographic data and clinical features of the cancers as assessment criteria. A secondary aim was to evaluate the correlation between the self-rated questionnaire for the quality of sleep with other instruments used in measuring pain and quality of life.

The relationship between quality of life and levels of hopelessness and depression in palliative care.

There is growing interest in the psychological distress and quality of life of cancer patients. The aim of this study was to compare the responses of 102 advanced cancer patients on a quality of life scale (as measured by the SF12) with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), as well as the impact of depression and hopelessness on quality of life. Significant associations were found between gender (P=.

Exploring the relationships between depression, hopelessness, cognitive status, pain, and spirituality in patients with advanced cancer.

The growing interest in the psychological morbidity of patients with cancer has been the major reason for conducting this study. The measurements used were the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, the Mini Mental State Examination, the Greek Brief Pain Inventory, and the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale. The analysis was conducted in 82 patients with advanced cancer.

Sleep quality in advanced cancer patients.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the sleep quality of advanced cancer patients and its relationship with pain, depression, and hopelessness.

Methods: The participants were 102 advanced cancer patients who were on palliative treatment. Patients completed a sleep quality instrument, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); a pain assessment tool, the Greek Brief Pain Inventory; a self-report measure of depression, the Beck Depression Inventory; and, finally, the Beck Hopelessness Scale.

Comparison of pain quality descriptors in cancer patients with nociceptive and neuropathic pain.

Background: The aim of this study was to explore the differences in the descriptors for neuropathic and nociceptive pain in cancer patients.

Patients And Methods: One hundred and eighty-six cancer patients who participated in the study completed the Greek version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (G-MPQ) for the assessment of their pain quality.

Results: Significant differences were found between type of pain in all G-MPQ classes.