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Feeling hopeless

Known as: Hopeless, future hope, Hopelessness 
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Improved liver function following treatment with an extracorporeal liver assist device.
A 68-year-old woman with fulminant hepatic failure of unknown etiology was treated with a bioartificial liver assist device… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
An exploratory factor analysis of existential suffering in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients
To determine an underlying factorial structure of existential distress in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients, a principal… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Vegetative and Psychological Symptoms Associated with Depressed Mood over the First Two Years after Stroke
Introduction: In patients with acute physical illness, symptoms used in the diagnosis of major depression such as sleep or… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Circumstances surrounding the deaths of children due to asthma. A case-control study.
Features of the courses in 12 children who died of an acute attack of asthma were compared with those in 12 children of… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Test-retest reliability of the Hopelessness Scale and its items in a university population.
In a study that used 149 university undergraduates and a 3-week test-retest interval, the stability of the Hopelessness Scale was… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Norms, reliability, and item analysis of the Hopelessness Scale in general psychiatric, forensic psychiatric, and college populations.
Administered the Hopelessness Scale to 99 criminal psychiatric inpatients, 118 general psychiatric inpatients, and 197 upper… 
Review
1976
Review
1976
Mania in childhood: case studies and literature review.
Criteria for mania in children have been established on the basis of criteria for mania in adults. Mania in children is an… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Hopelessness: an indicator of suicidal risk.
In a sample of 87 hospitalized suicide attempters, a hopelessness scale was found to be significantly better than a depression… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Poverty, ethnic identity and preventive health care.
To investigate the roles of 3 types of alienation; powerlessness hopelessness and social isolation as barriers to the utilization… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Psychological Factors and Reticuloendothelial Disease: II. Observations on a Group of Women with Lymphomas and Leukemias
Summary Observations are reported on 32 women with lymphocytic, myelocytic, or monocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, reticulum… 
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