Author:
PESSIN HAYLEY,OLDEN MEGAN,JACOBSON COLLEEN,KOSINSKI ANNE
Abstract
Depression is commonly experienced by cancer patients at the end of
life. The identification of patients suffering from depression is
essential to provide clinicians with an opportunity to relieve
considerable suffering. However, the assessment of depressive symptoms is
complex and often challenging in a terminally ill cancer population. This
article offers practical guidelines to assist clinicians with the
diagnosis of depression, reviews the defining symptoms of depression and
their unique presentation in patients at the end of life, suggests
modifications of the standard diagnostic interview, and provides examples
of specific assessment questions to target depressive symptoms at the end
of life.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,General Medicine,General Nursing
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