Palliative & Supportive Care

Article	Citations
Mental health in chronic disease patients during the COVID-19 quarantine in Greece	72
Healthcare utilization among breast cancer patients during the COVID-19 outbreak	53
The impact of COVID-19 on palliative care workers across the world: A qualitative analysis of responses to open-ended questions	36
Navigating the terrain of moral distress: Experiences of pediatric end-of-life care and bereavement during COVID-19	31
A review of psychosocial interventions targeting families of children with cancer	27
Spirituality and quality of life in women with breast cancer: The role of hope and educational attainment	24
Impact of home-based palliative care on health care costs and hospital use: A systematic review	23
Voicing their choices: Advance care planning with adolescents and young adults with cancer and other serious conditions	19
The prevalence rates and adversities of delirium: Too common and disadvantageous	18
“When the first session may be the last!”: A case report of the implementation of “rapid tele-psychotherapy” with single-session music therapy in the COVID-19 outbreak	17
Goals of care and COVID-19: A GOOD framework for dealing with uncertainty	16
Virtual reality for improving pain and pain-related symptoms in patients with advanced stage colorectal cancer: A pilot trial to test feasibility and acceptability	13
Status of palliative care education in Mainland China: A systematic review	13
Increasing our understanding of nonphysical suffering within palliative care: A scoping review	12
Social work in hospice and palliative care in Europe: Findings from an EAPC survey	12
A lifespan approach to understanding family caregiver experiences of a blood cancer diagnosis	12
Hope in end-of-life cancer patients: A cross-sectional analysis	12
Managing Anxiety from Cancer (MAC): A pilot randomized controlled trial of an anxiety intervention for older adults with cancer and their caregivers	11
“Everybody in this community is at risk of dying”: An ethnographic exploration on the potential of integrating a palliative approach to care among workers in inner-city settings	10
Impact of educational programs on nurses’ knowledge and attitude toward pediatric palliative care	10
The alleviation of suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Parents’ views on what facilitated or complicated their grief after losing a child to cancer	10
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale	10
Delirium is associated with an increased morbidity and in-hospital mortality in cancer patients: Results from a prospective cohort study	10
But parents need help! Pathways to caregiver mental health care in pediatric hospital settings	9

Sustainable implementation of advance care planning in Asia: An interpretive-systemic framework for national development	9
A systematic review of instruments measuring grief after perinatal loss and factors associated with grief reactions	9
Addressing the quality of communication with older cancer patients with cognitive deficits: Development of a communication skills training module	9
Nurses’ involvement in end-of-life discussions with incurable cancer patients and family caregivers: An integrative review	9
Development and preliminary evaluation of EMPOWER for surrogate decision-makers of critically ill patients	9
Impact of palliative care on end-of-life care and place of death in children, adolescents, and young adults with life-limiting conditions: A systematic review	9
Cardiovascular disease and meaning in life: A systematic literature review and conceptual model	9
Influence of advance directives on reducing aggressive measures during end-of-life cancer care: A systematic review	9
Distress experienced by lung cancer patients and their family caregivers in the first year of their cancer journey	9
The experiences of health professionals, patients, and families with truth disclosure when breaking bad news in palliative care: A qualitative meta-synthesis	8
Evaluation of the Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum in Australia: Online	8
Dying patients with COVID-19: What should Hospital Palliative Care Teams (HPCTs) be prepared for?	8
Educational intervention to improve palliative care knowledge among informal caregivers of cognitively impaired older adults	8
Emotional and cognitive barriers of bereavement care among clinical staff in hospice palliative care	8
A qualitative exploration of the feasibility and acceptability of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers	8
Exploring the efficacy of music in palliative care: A scoping review	8
Advancing interprofessional education in communication	7
Caring with compassion during COVID-19	7
A randomized clinical trial assessing a pragmatic intervention to improve supportive care for family caregivers of patients with lung cancer	7
Subclinical thiamine deficiency: What is the most appropriate method of diagnosis and treatment?	7
The relationship between caregivers’ perceptions of end-of-life care in long-term care and a good resident death	7
Theory-driven role model stories improve palliative care knowledge among a diverse older population	7
Comparison between patient-reported and clinician-reported outcomes: Validation of the Japanese version of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale for staff	7
What contributes to family carers’ decision to transition towards palliative-oriented care for their relatives in nursing homes? Qualitative findings from bereaved family carers’ experiences	7
Evaluation of care burden and preparedness of caregivers who provide care to palliative care patients	7
Cultural implications for disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis toward terminally ill cancer patients in China: A literature review	7
Australian perspectives on spiritual care training in healthcare: A Delphi study	7
End of life communication among caregivers of children with cancer: A qualitative approach to understanding support desired by families	7
The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada	7
Burnout in psychosocial oncology clinicians: A systematic review	7
End-of-life dreams and visions as perceived by palliative care professionals: A qualitative study	7
Posttraumatic growth in palliative care patients and its associations with psychological distress and quality of life	7
The development of a nomogram to determine the frequency of elevated risk for non-medical opioid use in cancer patients	7
Determining the informational needs of family caregivers of people with intellectual disability who require palliative care: A qualitative study	7
“The surprise questions” using variable time frames in hospitalized patients with advanced cancer	7
Complexity of desire for hastened death in terminally ill cancer patients: A cluster analysis	7
Development and evaluation of the feasibility, validity, and reliability of a screening tool for determining distress and supportive care needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer in Japan	7
Acceptability of a Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Black Americans: Results from a focus group and oncology pilot study	6
Providing home hospice care for LGBTQ+ patients and caregivers: Perceptions and opinions of hospice interdisciplinary care team providers	6
Toward holistic care: Including substance use in mental health-palliative care integration	6
Delirium at the end of life	6
Development of a Japanese version of the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey: Examination of its reliability and validity	6
The Family Talk Intervention in palliative home care when a parent with dependent children has a life-threatening illness: A feasibility study from parents’ perspectives	6
Systematic review of cancer-related fatigue instruments in breast cancer patients	6
Psychological well-being of palliative care professionals: Who cares?	6
Preparedness for family caregiving prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation	6
Does voluntary assisted dying cause public stigma for the bereaved? A vignette-based experiment	6
Church leaders and parishioners speak out about the role of the church in advance care planning and end-of-life care	6
Spiritual well-being, self-transcendence, and spiritual practices among Filipino women with breast cancer	6
Death anxiety in patients with primary brain tumor: Measurement, prevalence, and determinants	6

Effects of end-of-life care on medical health professionals: A dialectical approach	6
Dying concerns in young parents with advanced cancer (PWAC): A scoping review	6
Communicating is analogous to caring: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the patient–clinician communication experiences of individuals with ovarian cancer	6
Patients’ experiences of family members’ reactions to diagnosis of breast cancer and support in the management of breast cancer in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Contingent hope theory: The developmental exploration of hope and identity reconciliation among young adults with advanced cancers	6
“Truly holistic?” Differences in documenting physical and psychosocial needs and hope in Portuguese palliative patients	6
Assessing the need for a question prompt list that encourages end-of-life discussions between patients with advanced cancer and their physicians: A focus group interview study	6
Preparing a young palliative care unit for the COVID-19 pandemic in a teaching hospital in Ghana	6
Mapping end-of-life and anticipatory medications in palliative care patients using a longitudinal general practice database	6
The psychological experience of pediatric oncology patients facing life-threatening situations: A systematic review with narrative synthesis	6
Assessment of professional bereavement: The development and validation of the Professional Bereavement Scale	6
Telehealth in outpatient delivery of palliative care: A qualitative study of patient and physician views	6
Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the mindful self-care scale among Brazilian palliative care providers	5
Correlations among spiritual care competence, spiritual care perceptions and spiritual health of Chinese nurses: A cross-sectional correlational study	5
Relationship between the religious attitudes of women with gynecologic cancer and mental adjustment to cancer	5
The burden in palliative care assistance: A comparison of psychosocial risks and burnout between inpatient hospice and home care services workers	5
What should be measured to assess the quality of community-based palliative care? Results from a collaborative expert workshop	5
The inaugural United States World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Celebration: A virtual coming together	5
Addressing the needs of parents with advanced cancer: Attitudes, practice behaviors, and training experiences of oncology social workers	5
Quality of life, anxiety, depression, and distress in patients with advanced and metastatic lung cancer	5
Future provision of home end-of-life care: Family carers’ willingness for caregiving and needs for support	5
A Portuguese trial using dignity therapy for adults who have a life-threatening disease: Qualitative analysis of generativity documents	5
A cross-sectional study of the first two years of mandatory training for doctors participating in voluntary assisted dying	5
Exploring the use of games in palliative care: A scoping review	5
Toward a clinical model for patient spiritual journeys in supportive and palliative care: Testing a concept of human spirituality and associated recursive states	5
Developing a consensus definition of psychosocial complexity in cancer patients using Delphi methods	5
National and international non-therapeutic recommendations for adult palliative and end-of-life care in times of pandemics: A scoping review	5
The impact of COVID-19 on palliative care workers across the world and measures to support their coping capacity	5
Dignity therapy in Mexican lung cancer patients with emotional distress: Impact on psychological symptoms and quality of life	5
Effect of virtual reality-based exercise intervention on sleep quality in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and healthy siblings: A randomized controlled trial	5
Availability as key determinant in the palliative home care setting from the patients’ and family caregivers’ perspectives: A quantitative-qualitative-content analysis approach	5
Culturally sensitive palliative care in humanitarian action: Lessons from a critical interpretive synthesis of culture in palliative care literature	5
“The education is a mirror of where palliative care stands in Israel today”: An exploration of palliative care undergraduate education at medical schools in Israel	5
Tracheostomy decision-making for children with medical complexity: What supports and resources do caregivers need?	5
Predictors and moderators of outcomes in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention for early breast cancer patients	5
Description of a training protocol to improve research reproducibility for dignity therapy: an interview-based intervention	5
A third of dying patients do not have end-of-life discussions with a physician: A nationwide registry study	5
Adapting the serious illness conversation guide for use in the emergency department by social workers	5
Effects of prolonged interruption of rehabilitation routines in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients	5
A scoping review of studies exploring leisure-time physical activity in adults diagnosed with advanced cancer	5
End-of-life dreams and visions: A systematic integrative review	5
Palliative and hospice social workers’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Prevalence and factors associated with demoralization in palliative care patients: A cross-sectional study from Hong Kong	4
Cross-cultural validation of the Cancer Stigma Scale in the general Japanese population	4
A review of clinical trials of advance care planning interventions adapted for limited health literacy	4
Exploring the caregiver's experience in an innovative homebound hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program	4
Effect of a social network-based supportive program (WhatsApp) on the sexual self-concept of women with breast cancer: A single-blind-randomized controlled trial	4
Do Hispanics prefer to be full code at the end of life? The impact of palliative care consults on clarifying code status preferences and hospice referrals in Spanish-speaking patients	4
Objective burden, caregiver psychological distress, and patient religion and quality of life are associated with high-intensity burden of care among caregivers of advanced cancer patients in a Latino	4
Cancer-related fatigue: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of mind–body intervention	4
Race and prevalence of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in patients with advanced dementia	4
Fighting racism in research	4
End-of-life and goals of care discussions with cancer patients in the coronavirus pandemic	4
A cognitive behavioral therapy–based intervention to address body image in patients with facial cancers: Results from a randomized controlled trial	4
Palliative care in the emergency department: A qualitative study exploring barriers, facilitators, desired clinician qualities, and future directions	4
A qualitative study exploring family caregivers’ support needs in the context of medical assistance in dying	4
Screening for distress in cancer care: How to overcome barriers after unsuccessful implementation?	4
Examining public stigma and expectations of grief following medical aid and dying in the US: A vignette-based experiment	4
Professional experiences of formal healthcare providers in the provision of medical assistance in dying (MAiD): A scoping review	4
From “surviving to thriving”: Mood Lifters – a wellness program for parents of medically complex children	4
Operationalizing dignity therapy for adolescents	4
Current measures of distress may not account for what's most important in existential care interventions: Results of the outlook trial	4
“A kaleidoscope of relationships” — cervical cancer survivors’ perspectives on their intimate relationships: A qualitative study	4
European interprofessional postgraduate curriculum in palliative care: A narrative synthesis of field interviews in the region of Middle, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and Central and West Asia	4
What are the digitally enabled psychosocial interventions delivered by trained practitioners being offered to adults with life-shortening illnesses and palliative care needs and their informal and pro	4
Associated factors of distress in patients with advanced cancer: A retrospective study	4
The conscious state of the dying patient: An integrative review	4
The religious/spiritual beliefs and needs of cancer survivors who underwent cancer-directed surgery	4
Needs for nurses to provide spiritual care and their associated influencing factors among elderly inpatients with stroke in China: A cross-sectional quantitative study	4
An exploration of financial toxicity among low-income patients with cancer in Central Texas: A mixed methods analysis	4
Family caregiver grief and post-loss adjustment: A longitudinal cohort study	4
Empowering families facing end-stage nonmalignant chronic diseases with a holistic, transdisciplinary, community-based intervention: 3 months outcome of the Life Rainbow Program	4
Meaning-centered group psychotherapy in Portuguese cancer patients: A pilot exploratory trial	4
How does spirituality manifest in family caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients? A qualitative secondary analysis	4
Rural Hispanic/Latino cancer patients’ perspectives on facilitators, barriers, and suggestions for advance care planning: A qualitative study	4
Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) in Iranian patients with cancer	4
Investigation of the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—Cognitive Function in cancer patients	4
Effects of dignity therapy on palliative patients’ family members: A systematic review	4
Changes in the palliative performance scale may be as important as the initial palliative performance scale for predicting survival in terminal cancer patients	3
Cancer care reform in South Africa: A case for cancer care coordination: A narrative review	3

Empathic communication in dignity therapy: Feasibility of measurement and descriptive findings	3
Identifying practical clinical problems in active euthanasia: A systematic literature review of the findings in countries where euthanasia is legal	3
Breaking the silence about illness and death: Potential effects of a pilot study of the family talk intervention when a parent with dependent children receives specialized palliative home care	3
Equal palliative care for foreign-born patients: A national quality register study	3
Family caregivers’ perceived communication self-efficacy with physicians	3
A decision tree prediction model for a short-term outcome of delirium in patients with advanced cancer receiving pharmacological interventions: A secondary analysis of a multicenter and prospective ob	3
Goals of care and COVID-19: A GOOD framework for dealing with uncertainty – CORRIGENDUM	3
What do we know about experiencing end-of-life in burn intensive care units? A scoping review	3
Increased preparedness for caregiving among family caregivers in specialized home care by using the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool Intervention	3
Palliative care nurses’ experiences of stress, anxiety, and burnout: A thematic synthesis	3
How do trained palliative care providers experience open desire to die-conversations? An explorative thematic analysis	3
Hypercalcemia due to methadone-induced adrenal insufficiency in a case of oral cancer	3
Advance care planning among African Americans: A review and synthesis of theory application	3
A COVID-19 Obituary	3
“A Wanderer's Tale”: The development of a virtual reality application for pain and quality of life in Australian burns and oncology patients	3
Integration between humor and music therapy to increase spirituality and meaning in palliative and supportive care	3
Unsolved problems and unwanted decision-making in the last year of life: A qualitative analysis of comments from bereaved caregivers	3
Family functioning and psychosocial symptoms among Latinx patients coping with advanced cancer	3
Partnering to cope with pain: A pilot study of a caregiver-assisted pain coping skills intervention for patients with cognitive impairment and dementia	3
Life and Death in the Age of COVID-19	3
Palliative care and aggressive interventions after falling: A Nationwide Inpatient Sample analysis	3
Voice your values, a tailored advance care planning intervention in persons living with mild dementia: A pilot study	3
Polarization in public attitudes toward end-of-life decisions in Israel – A cross-sectional study	3
The Neonatal Palliative Care Attitude Scale: Psychometric properties for Portuguese neonatal nurses	3
The prevalence rates and sequelae of delirium at age older than 90 years	3
Experiences and views of nurses about unmet needs of older cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: A qualitative study	3
Compassion fatigue in pediatric hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant healthcare providers: An integrative review	3
Development and psychometric validation of a comprehensive end-of-life care competence scale: A study based on three-year surveys of health and social care professionals in Hong Kong	3
Cervical cancer survivors: The experiences of the journey	3
The desire for death in Portuguese home-care palliative patients: Retrospective analysis of the prevalence and associated factors	3
Spiritual care perceptions and empathy of Chinese nursing students: The mediating roles of spiritual well-being	3
Feasibility and acceptability of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) or acupuncture for insomnia and related distress among cancer caregivers	2
The European Portuguese Posthumous Dignity Therapy Schedule of Questions: Initial development and validation	2
Preferences of quality delivery of palliative care among cancer patients in low- and middle-income countries: A review	2
An ethical conundrum: Palliative care in the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Psychometric properties of the PG-13-R scale to assess prolonged grief disorder among bereaved Iranian adults	2
Patient behaviors during virtual clinic encounters in palliative care	2
Race-conscious serious illness communication: An interpersonal tool to dismantle racism in practice and research	2
Religious–spiritual experiences of family members and caregivers of children and adolescents with cancer	2
Utilization of inpatient palliative care services among adolescents and young adults with cancer: Evidence from National Inpatient Sample 2016–2019	2
Assessing well-being in pediatric palliative care: A pilot study about views of children, parents and health professionals	2
The benefits of concurrent engagement in meaning-centered psychotherapy and meaning-centered psychotherapy for cancer caregivers: A case study	2
Suicide prevention in cancer care: What are the next steps?	2
Delirium documentation in hospitalized pediatric patients with cancer	2
Impacts of social distancing on cancer care during COVID-19 pandemic: Hong Kong experience -- RETRACTED	2
Comparing the hospital anxiety and depression scale to the Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale for identifying cases of major depressive disorder in advanced cancer palliative patients	2
An adaptation of meaning-centered psychotherapy integrating “essential care”: A pilot study	2
“Rapid tele-psychotherapy” with single-session music therapy in the metaverse: An alternative solution for mental health services in the future	2
Factors associated with mental health service use among families bereaved by pediatric cancer	2
Incidence and risk factors of prolonged grief in relatives of patients with terminal cancer in French palliative care units: The Fami-Life multicenter cohort study	2
Fatigue-related symptom clusters and functional status of older adults in hospice	2
Potential sources of moral distress during COVID-19: Perspectives of hospice interdisciplinary teams	2
Is there a relationship between end-of-life cancer patients’ dignity-related distress and caregivers’ distress? An exploratory study	2
Becoming an older caregiver: A study of gender differences in family caregiving at the end of life	2
Development and validation of the Terminal Delirium-Related Distress Scale to assess irreversible terminal delirium	2
Attitudes toward death and death acceptance among hemato-oncologists: An Israeli sample	2
Informal caregivers of older Muslims diagnosed with cancer: A portrait of depression, social support, and faith	2
Patients’ spiritual concerns and needs and how to address them during advance care planning conversations: Healthcare chaplains’ perspectives	2
Identification of palliative care needs in hemodialysis patients: An update	2
Cost considerations for implementing dignity therapy in palliative care: Insights and implications	2
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and mediative behavioral therapy for the treatment of suffocation related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A	2
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the functional assessment of cancer therapy–bone marrow transplant (FACT-BMT) quality of life questionnaire in patients undergoing bone marrow transp	2
Adapting the collaborative care model to palliative care: Establishing mental health–serious illness care integration	2
Unmet mental health needs in patients with advanced B-cell lymphomas	2
Wernicke encephalopathy in a lung cancer patient receiving home medical care	2
QTc prolongation after haloperidol administration in critically ill patients post cardiovascular surgery: A cohort study and review of the literature	2
The 2nd Annual US Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: A virtual coming together to support equity in palliative care access	2
Opioid withdrawal syndrome developing after long-term administration of naldemedine	2
Naldemedine-induced opioid withdrawal syndrome with severe psychiatric symptoms in an advanced cervical cancer patient without brain metastasis	2
Efficacy of meaning-centered group psychotherapy in Chinese patients with cancer: A randomized controlled trial	2
Identifying patients in need of palliative care: Adaptation of the Necesidades Paliativas CCOMS-ICO© (NECPAL) screening tool for use in Israel	2
Family members’ long-term grief management: A prospective study of factors during ongoing palliative care and bereavement	2
Palliative sedation in patients with advanced cancer in a specialized unit in a middle-income country: A retrospective cohort study	2
Measuring and exploring the barriers to translating palliative care knowledge into clinical practice in rural and regional health-care settings	2
Dementia caregiver burdens predict overnight hospitalization and hospice utilization	2
Palliative care among adult cancer survivors: Knowledge, attitudes, and correlates	2
Assessing delirium with nursing care instruments: Evaluation of the cognitive and associated domains	2
Nurses’ models of spiritual care: A cross-sectional survey of American nurses	2
The effectiveness of compassion-based interventions among cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Spiritual care needs among Chinese elders hospitalized for severe chronic heart failure: An observational study	2
Interdisciplinary simulation for nursing and medical students about final conversations: Catalyzing relationships at the end of life (CAREol)	2
Prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptoms among family caregivers of palliative care patients at Hospice Africa Uganda	2
Perceptions of the meaning of life among Korean patients with advanced cancer: A mixed-methods study	2
Patient–physician conversations about life-sustaining treatment: Treatment preferences and participant assessments	2
The effect of COVID-19 and rise of telehealth on end-of-life conversations	2
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Patient Dignity Inventory	2
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale of Patients with Cancer	2
Art therapy and self-image: A 5-year follow-up art therapy RCT study of women diagnosed with breast cancer	2
Thiamine deficiency in the outpatient psychiatric oncology setting: A case series	2
Psychosocial well-being among patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma	2
Relationship between the depression levels and nutritional statuses of advanced stage cancer patients	2
Integrating spirituality in the context of palliative and supportive care: The care for the whole person	2
Divorce after breast cancer diagnosis and its impact on quality of life	2
Reflecting on meaning in an existential-reorientation group psychotherapy approach for cancer patients: A qualitative thematic analysis	2
There is nothing informal about caregiving	2