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S. Robin Cohen
Researcher at McGill University
Publications - 84
Citations - 4613
S. Robin Cohen is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Family caregivers. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 78 publications receiving 4162 citations. Previous affiliations of S. Robin Cohen include Jewish General Hospital & McMaster University.
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The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire: a measure of quality of life appropriate for people with advanced disease. A preliminary study of validity and acceptability:
TL;DR: The importance of measuring the existential domain is highlighted by the finding that, of all the MQOL subscales and Spitzer items, only the meaningful existence subscale correlated significantly with a single item scale rating overall quality of life.
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Validity of the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire in the palliative care setting: a multi-centre Canadian study demonstrating the importance of the existential domain:
TL;DR: A revised version of The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL) is compared to a single-item scale measuring overall quality of life (SIS), and the self-administered version of the Spitzer Quality of life Index (SA-QLI), to obtain evidence of validity.
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Meaning-making intervention during breast or colorectal cancer treatment improves self-esteem, optimism, and self-efficacy.
Virginia Lee,S. Robin Cohen,S. Robin Cohen,Linda Edgar,Andréa Maria Laizner,Andréa Maria Laizner,Anita J. Gagnon,Anita J. Gagnon +7 more
TL;DR: After controlling for baseline scores, the experimental group participants demonstrated significantly higher levels of self-esteem, optimism, and self-efficacy compared to the control group.
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Healing connections: on moving from suffering to a sense of well-being.
TL;DR: The phenomenological method was used to achieve an in-depth description of both existential suffering, and conversely, the experience of integrity and wholeness, in persons with life-threatening illness and the assumptions underlying the construct "health-related QOL" are questioned.
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Changes in quality of life following admission to palliative care units.
TL;DR: This is the first study to demonstrate that hospice/palliative care can improve existential well-being in addition to psychological and physical symptoms, and provides evidence in the patients' own words that improvements in QOL go beyond symptom control following admission to a palliative Care unit.