Demoralization syndrome: New insights in psychosocial cancer care
Menée en Australie par questionnaire auprès de 211 patients atteints de cancer ou d'autres pathologies et recevant des soins palliatifs, cette étude évalue l'efficacité d'un outil permettant d'auto-rapporter leurs symptômes de démoralisation et de détresse psychologique
Demoralization is confirmed as a significant clinical dimension that needs to be part of the vision physicians should have when treating cancer patients. It is not a psychiatric disease but the expression of an unfolding, situational existence already involved in an irreducibly complex social world, in which cancer and its consequences as traumatic stressors impact the patient's experience and feelings, inducing a profound sense of emotional suffering
Cancer , éditorial, 2015