Psychiatric Indications for Admission to an Inpatient Palliative Care Unit

Peteet, John R.; Meyer, F.J.; Thomas, Jane deLima; Vitagliano, Halyna L.

doi:10.1089/jpm.2009.0015

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“…In other words, the main thrust of psychiatric palliative care to date has been to bring psychiatric expertise to seriously-ill patients, many of whom had not previously experienced mental illness. Conversely, there has been little attention to developing models for the application of palliative care principles to the care of patients with chronic mental illness, with some important exceptions [43 – 45]. Secondly, palliative care practice entails a number of important ethical concerns, some of which bear uniquely on issues relevant to mental health.…”

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Palliative Care Psychiatry: Update on an Emerging Dimension of Psychiatric Practice

Fairman

Irwin

2013

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Palliative care psychiatry is an emerging subspecialty field at the intersection of Palliative Medicine and Psychiatry. The discipline brings expertise in understanding the psychosocial dimensions of human experience to the care of dying patients and support of their families. The goals of this review are (1) to briefly define palliative care and summarize the evidence for its benefits, (2) to describe the roles for psychiatry within palliative care, (3) to review recent advances in the research and practice of palliative care psychiatry, and (4) to delineate some steps ahead as this sub-field continues to develop, in terms of research, education, and systems-based practice.

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Palliative Care Psychiatry: Update on an Emerging Dimension of Psychiatric Practice

Fairman

Irwin

2013

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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“…One study reported that 7.8% of cancer patients considered suicide in order to escape the fear of cancer progression, stress, and suffering [7]. Severe pain, a high number of hospitalizations, metastasis to other organs [8], repeated recurrence [9], loss of autonomy and control over the situation, and feelings of helplessness and despair (Lefetz and Reich, 2006) led to this increased risk [9,10].…”

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Association between Psychological Suffering and Suicidal Thinking in Patients with Urologic Cancer Using Real-World Data

Lee

Jung

Choi

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Cancer is a leading cause of death in Korea, and depression and suicide are major psychiatric problems in cancer patients. This study aimed to explore the correlation between anxiety, depression, social support, cancer state, and suicidality among urologic cancer patients. Sixty patients with urologic cancer were admitted to a university hospital between October 2019 and February 2020. The patients were evaluated using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale, Suicidality module of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), and the Lubben Social Network scales (LSNS). To determine which psychological or demographic factors affected suicide risk, Fisher’s exact test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, regression, and logistic regression were conducted. It was found that the greater the depressive symptoms, the higher the suicidal risk (OR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.08–1.61). Furthermore, anxiety symptoms and the duration of cancer after diagnosis significantly increased depressive symptoms (p = 0.032). Clinicians should be able to identify the risk factors for suicide in patients with cancer, one of which is depression. To assess the risk of suicide, we must evaluate not only depressive symptoms but also the related anxiety and duration of the disease. Prevention and intervention efforts are needed to improve depressive moods and anxiety after cancer diagnosis.

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Medikamentöse Therapie der Angst bei Patienten mit fortgeschrittenen Tumorerkrankungen bzw. Patienten in der palliativen Situation

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Allmendinger

Lorenzl

2012

Schmerz

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With the existing evidence no general recommendations for pharmacological treatment of anxiety in palliative care can be given. Even for the commonly used benzodiazepines, neuroleptics, antidepressants, antihistamines and beta blockers for the treatment of anxiety no evidence based recommendations can be made. However, these medications are commonly used to treat anxiety in other patient populations and can also be used in palliative care patients. According to our review we cannot recommend a single drug or give recommendations regarding the dosage of drugs. There is a strong need for randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effect of drug treatment of anxiety in palliative care patients. The English full text version of this article will be available in SpringerLink as of November 2012 (under "Supplemental").

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Psychiatric Indications for Admission to an Inpatient Palliative Care Unit

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Palliative Care Psychiatry: Update on an Emerging Dimension of Psychiatric Practice

Palliative Care Psychiatry: Update on an Emerging Dimension of Psychiatric Practice

Association between Psychological Suffering and Suicidal Thinking in Patients with Urologic Cancer Using Real-World Data

Medikamentöse Therapie der Angst bei Patienten mit fortgeschrittenen Tumorerkrankungen bzw. Patienten in der palliativen Situation

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