SynthesisJournal of pain and symptom management2020
Interventions to Support Family Caregivers in Pain Management: A Systematic Review.
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- Family Caregiver Challenges in Pain Management for Patients with Advanced Illnesses: A Systematic Review.Journal of palliative medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The pain identification and communication toolkit: a training program to support family caregivers of persons with ADRD.BMC geriatrics · 2025Trial
- Perspectives and Needs Regarding Remote Monitoring Technologies Among South Asian Individuals Living With Long-Term Conditions in the United Kingdom: Semistructured Interview and Focus Group Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Management of Mild to Moderate Pain from Triage to Discharge in the Emergency Department: A Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus from the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine (SIMEU).Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring the predictive capacity of smartphone-based digital phenotyping to monitor pain and physical quality of life in advanced cancer patients, family caregivers, and dyads.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- MentalChat16K: A Benchmark Dataset for Conversational Mental Health Assistance.KDD : proceedings. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining · 2025Article
- Family caregivers' administration of medications at the end-of-life in China: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- The PATIENT Approach: A New Bundle for the Management of Chronic Pain.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Establishing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Caregiver Targeted Intervention to Improve Pain Assessment Among Persons With Dementia.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Improving palliative care outcomes in remote and rural areas of LMICs through family caregivers: lessons from Kazakhstan.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Family Caregivers' Challenges in Cancer Pain Management for Patients Receiving Palliative Care.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2023Article
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- Exploring the Use of Wearable Sensors and Natural Language Processing Technology to Improve Patient-Clinician Communication: Protocol for a Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Randomized clinical trial to evaluate a cancer pain self-management intervention for outpatients.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2022Article
- Effect of family caregiver nursing education on patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its impact factors: A randomized controlled trial.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
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Abstract
contextFamily caregivers encounter many challenges when managing pain for their loved ones. There is a lack of clear recommendations on how to prepare caregivers in pain management.
objectivesTo evaluate existing interventions that support family caregivers in providing pain management to patients with all disease types.
methodsFour electronic databases were systematically searched (PubMed, Cumulative Index for Nursing Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO, and Scopus) using index and keyword methods for articles published before December 2019. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess the quality.
resultsThe search identified 6851 studies, and 25 studies met the inclusion criteria. Only two studies exclusively focused on noncancer populations (8%). Three types of interventions were identified in this review: educational interventions, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and technology-based interventions. Both educational and cognitive-behavioral interventions improved family caregiver and patient outcomes, but the content and intensity of these interventions in these studies varied widely, and there was a limited number of randomized clinical trials (68%). Hence, it is unclear what strategies are most effective to prepare family caregivers in pain management. Technology-based interventions were feasible to support family caregivers in providing pain management.
conclusionProviding adequate pain management training can improve patient and family caregiver outcomes. However, the most effective interventions for family caregivers are still unclear. More rigorous and replicable clinical trials are needed to examine the effects of educational interventions, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and technology-based interventions. Also, more studies are needed in patients with a noncancer diagnosis or multimorbidity.
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