Intentions in wishes to die: analysis and a typology--a report of 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the variations in and intentions of wishes to die (WTD) of palliative care cancer patients.

Methods

Thirty terminally ill cancer patients, their caregivers and relatives in a hospice, an oncology palliative care ward of a general hospital, and an outpatient palliative care service. 116 semistructured qualitative interviews analyzed by a combined approach using Grounded Theory and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.

Results

A WTD is dynamic and interactive. Its subjective phenomenology can be described by three aspects: intentions, motivations, and interactions. In this article, we present a typology of the possible intentions. We identified nine different (ideal) types of intentions that WTD statements might have, other than wishing to liv

SUBMITTER: Ohnsorge K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4312918 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature