The Experience of Hopelessness in a Population of Greek Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care

Kyriaki Mystakidou, Efi Parpa, Eleni Tsilika, Maria Pathiaki, Ioanna Hatzipli, Antonis Galanos and Lambros Vlahos
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Kyriaki Mystakidou: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, mistakidou@yahoo.com
Efi Parpa: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Eleni Tsilika: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Maria Pathiaki: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Ioanna Hatzipli: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Antonis Galanos: Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Lambros Vlahos: Radiology Department, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2008, vol. 54, issue 3, 262-271

Abstract: 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. Internal consistency, item-total correlations, and test—retest using four different approaches were calculated for the assessment of the reliability. Construct validity was used by examining correlations between BHS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD-Depression) and the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death (SAHD). Known-groups validity was also assessed by detecting group differences according to disease severity as measured by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status. Univariate and multivariate analyses were constructed to explore the relationship between hopelessness, depression, hastened death and the patients' demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: One factor solution was yielded accounted for 46.64% of the variance. The test—retest reliability was satisfactory ( p

Keywords: hopelessness; palliative care; depression; hastened death; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764008089857

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