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ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2020

Caring for Family Caregivers: a Pilot Test of an Online COMFORT™

Elaine Wittenberg, Joy V Goldsmith, Y'Esha Williams, Angella Lee

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Article in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elaine WittenbergDepartment of Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA. Elaine.wittenberg2@calstatela.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1140-0742
Joy V GoldsmithCommunication Studies, Art & Communication Bldg 235, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA.
Y'Esha WilliamsLoewenberg College of Nursing, 3566 Community Health Building, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA.
Angella LeeSchool of Nursing, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

Improving Patient-Centered Communication and Cancer CareR25CA174627 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI FERRELL, BETTY R, WITTENBERG, ELAINE M · 2014 to 2018
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NCI NIH HHS R25 CA174627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Family caregivers who provide care and support to cancer patients experience distress, burden, and decreased quality of life as a result of caregiving. Caregivers often turn to nurses for support; however, there is little training available for nurses on how to care for the family caregiver. Undergraduate nursing students have a high need to learn about engaging caregivers in care, but little content is presented to fulfill that need. Derived from the COMFORT™

Indexed as

CommunicationCurriculumQuality of LifeAdultCaregiversEducation, DistanceEducation, Nursing, BaccalaureateFemaleHumansLearningMalePilot ProjectsStudents, NursingYoung AdultCancerCommunicationFamily caregiversOnline nursing education

Identifiers

PMID30467775
PMCPMC6533166

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