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ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2018

Pain Management Concerns From the Hospice Family Caregivers' Perspective.

Nai-Ching Chi, George Demiris, Kenneth C Pike, Karla Washington, Debra Parker Oliver

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Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nai-Ching Chi1 College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-8034
George Demiris2 Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-5829
Kenneth C Pike4 Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, School of Nursing, Universality of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Karla Washington5 Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1100-9524
Debra Parker Oliver5 Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
University of Missouri · USUniversity of Iowa · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

A Problem Solving Intervention for Hospice CaregiversR01NR012213 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DEMIRIS, GEORGE · 2011 to 2021
$4.2M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR012213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPain management is a challenging task for family caregivers in home hospice care. However, there are limited studies that examine the challenges regarding pain management in hospice care from family caregivers' perspectives.

objectivesTo identify the challenges related to pain management faced by family caregivers in hospice care and to examine the validity of an existing framework that outlines pain management challenges for hospice family caregivers.

designWe conducted a theory-driven, deductive content analysis of secondary data obtained from hospice family caregivers' interviews from a randomized clinical trial. SETTING/

participantsWe included baseline interviews of 15 hospice caregivers of patients from hospice agencies in the States of Washington. The majority of the participants were white and female caregivers. They were spouse/partner or adult child living with the patient.

resultsThe study identified 5 out of the 6 major themes in the original framework and confirmed that hospice family caregivers face a variety of challenges: caregiver-centric issues, caregiver's medication skills and knowledge, communication and teamwork, organizational skill, and patient-centric issues. A couple of the subthemes in the original framework were not present in our findings. We also expanded the original framework by adding 1 subtheme and revised 2 definitions in the original framework.

conclusionThe study provided an investigation on hospice family caregivers' difficulties in pain management. The results can inform health-care providers and researchers of family caregivers' challenges and provide insights for future designs of educational tools targeting pain management strategies, so that family caregivers can perform pain management effectively at home.

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AdultAgedCaregiversCommunicationFemaleHome NursingHospice CareHumansMaleMiddle AgedPain ManagementPalliative CareRandomized Controlled Trials as Topiccarersend-of-life carefamily caregivershospice carepain managementpain medications

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PMID28875732
PMCPMC6322198
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