About the Authors

Andrea Rodríguez-Prat

Affiliation Faculty of Humanities, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Barcelona. Spain

Cristina Monforte-Royo

Affiliation Nursing Department, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Josep Porta-Sales

Affiliations Palliative Care Service, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Escribano

Affiliation Faculty of Humanities, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Barcelona. Spain

Albert Balaguer

abalaguer@uic.es

Affiliation School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR CMR XE AB. Performed the experiments: AR CMR AB. Analyzed the data: AR CMR JPS AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR CMR AB. Wrote the paper: AR CMR JPS XE AB.