Altruism--a coping mechanism for patients on clinical trials: a nursing perspective.
Altruism often is expressed by patients with advanced cancer as a coping mechanism and a motivational factor for participation in clinical trials. Those who participate develop a sense of hope that their life is a contribution, which may continue to live beyond their deaths.
Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri in Columbia.
Judith Brown
JB
Sanders
Julie S
JS
Seda
Carl G
CG
Kardinal
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000533:Altruism; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D009729:Nursing