This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Background Communication about the end of life is especially important in the family
context, as patients and their families are considered as the care unit in palliative care. Open …

Problematic integration theory is a theory in communication that deals with the processing of
messages by humans. It is helpful to study challenges and their solutions in the health …

Summary Purpose In Japan, about 80% of deaths occur in hospitals, especially long-term
care beds. The purpose of this study was to clarify the nursing practices used for such older …

Purpose This study explored the consistency between preferences for end-of-life care for
elderly hospitalized patients and their primary caregivers and predictors of consistency …

We describe racially discordant oncology encounters involving EOL decision-making. Fifty-
eight provider interviews were content analyzed using the tenets of problematic integration …

ABSTRACT Problematic integration theory (Babrow, 1992. Communication and problematic
integration: Understanding diverging probability and value, ambiguity, ambivalence, and …

Objectives The aim was:(1) to investigate preferred place for end-of-life care and death for
bereaved family members who had recently lost a person with advanced illness and (2) to …

A comprehensive overview of research on The Barriers to Hospice Care for African
Americans. As part of the Doctor Social Work requirements at California Baptist University, a …

Objectives Pre-emptive conversations (PCs) about end-of-life (EOL) preferences are
beneficial for both elderly people and their families to understand and share the …