{
  "abstract": "Palliative care is recommended for patients with cancer to support symptom management and psychosocial needs throughout their illness. However, preferences for using palliative care vary considerably, resulting in patients missing out on care that could improve quality of life. Recent research underscores the importance of individual difference measures in predicting these attitudes. For example, emotional distress (eg, anger, anxiety and depression) is a risk factor for less favourable attitudes about palliative care.1 Personality traits may also play a role: US states whose residents are higher in Openness (to experience) tend to have more acceptance of palliative care programmes.2 More research into the psychological processes contributing to palliative care attitudes might inform novel strategies for increasing palliative care uptake.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Nicholas Kerry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Laura M Perry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jeremy D W Clifton"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Predictors of palliative care attitudes among US patients with cancer and survivors: ideology, personality, world beliefs",
  "uid": "d06d3742-e0a0-55c0-9eca-f17e08768ca4"
}