Providing psychological support to people impacted by terminal illness: A mixed methods study of hospice staff perceived competence, confidence and training needs

• Fatema Zavery ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fatema Zavery, Sulafa Fakhreddin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Sulafa Fakhreddin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fatema Zavery, Sulafa Fakhreddin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Huibregtse Van Loon ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SHVL and MMC authors also contributed equally to this work. FZ and SF are joint first authors.

  Affiliation Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Mhairi McDougall ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SHVL and MMC authors also contributed equally to this work. FZ and SF are joint first authors.

  Affiliation Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Anne Finucane

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.finucane@ed.ac.uk

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Clinical Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3056-059X

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