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- Title: Oncolgy Social Workers' Attitudes Toward Hospice Care and Referral Behavior.
- Author : Health and Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 224 KB
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The study reported in this article was designed to determine the attitudes of oncology social workers to-ward hospice care and the frequency with which they referred terminally ill patients to hospice care. A follow-up study sought to explain the most interesting finding of the initial study--that is, that workers reported uniformly favorable attitudes toward hospice care, yet referred to hospice fewer than half of their terminally ill patients. The literature indicates that palliative care for terminally ill patients helps patients manage pain effectively and stay active in terms of their personal relationships and pursuit of emotional and spiritual growth (Dobratz, 1995; Malone, 2002; Saunders, 1995). Moreover, patients who go home to die using a hospice support program typically demonstrate greater acceptance of their impending deaths, higher self-esteem, and greater subjective well-being than those who die in a hospital setting (Davies, 1996; Dobratz).
