SynthesisPalliative medicine2021
Mutual support between patients and family caregivers in palliative care: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Decision-making in palliative care: patient and family caregiver concordance and discordance-systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2023Pooled it
- Expectations and motives for nominating a family caregiver to partake in a web-based psychoeducational intervention: perspectives of patients with advanced illness in palliative care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Trial
- Narrative identity at the end of life: a qualitative analysis of dignity therapy interviews from an existential perspective.BMC palliative care · 2025Trial
- The family caregiver-targeted web-based intervention "narstaende.se" facilitated everyday life for couples facing life-threatening illness: A qualitative study.Palliative medicine · 2025Trial
- Predictors and Interdependence of Quality of Life in a Random Sample of Long-Term Young Breast Cancer Survivors and Their Biological Relatives.Cancer medicine · 2024Trial
- Prognostic disclosure, end-of-life communication, and social support associated with distinct dyadic death-preparedness states among cancer dyads.The oncologist · 2026Article
- Exploring Hope in Patient-Caregiver Dyads Living with Advanced Chronic Disease in Portugal: A Phenomenological Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Hope and despair in cancer and other illnesses: a clinical framework for adaptive hope across the illness trajectory.ESMO open · 2026Review
- PROTOCOL: Experiences of Informal Caregivers of Dependent Older People on Interventions to Reduce Care Burden and Promote Their Biopsychosocial Well-Being.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
- Lonely boats swaying in the storm: experiences and supportive needs of adult only-children confronting parental end-of-life care: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Family Relationships as Modifiable Targets for Caregiver Quality of Life in Hospice Care: A Multicenter Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Observational
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- Palliative care in patients with brain metastases from breast cancer: a qualitative descriptive study of attitudes, practices, and barriers.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Social support and psychological distress among family caregivers of palliative patients at two rural hospitals in Malawi: a cross-sectional study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Patient-caregiver concordance on death preparedness over Taiwanese cancer patients' last 6 months.The oncologist · 2025Article
- The Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care Decision-Making in Managed Long-Term Care: A Qualitative Study.Home health care management & practice · 2025Article
- Determinants of quality of life decrease in family caregivers of care-dependent patients: a longitudinal study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Moral distress among family caregivers of people with cancer in palliative care: A qualitative study.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2025Article
- Developing and implementing a nurse-delivered and a web-based dyadic psychoeducational program for people with advanced cancer and their family caregivers: sharing experiences from a three-arm international randomized controlled trial (DIAdIC).Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- The interactivity and independence of Recovery challenges and coping strategies for ICU survivors and their caregivers: a systematic review and Meta-synthesis.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients in palliative care are usually conceptualised as recipients of support from family caregivers. Family caregivers in palliative care are typically defined as providers of support to patients. Little is known about reciprocal dimensions of support provision between patients and family caregivers in palliative care.
aimTo identify processes of mutual support between patients and family caregivers in palliative care and factors that contribute to or obstruct mutual support between patients and family caregivers in palliative care.
designSystematic review and narrative synthesis of original peer-reviewed research published between January 2000 and March 2020. DATA SOURCES: Medline, CINAHL, Embase, AMED, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES.
resultsAfter full-text screening, 10 studies were included. We identified that patients and family caregivers in palliative care can support one another by mutually acknowledging the challenges they face, by remaining positive for one another and by jointly adapting to their changing roles. However, patients and family caregivers may not routinely communicate their distress to each other or reciprocate in distress disclosure. A lack of mutual disclosure pertaining to distress can result in conflict between patients and family caregivers.
conclusionsFew studies have focused in whole or in part, on reciprocal dimensions of support provision between patients with advancing non-curable conditions, and their family caregivers in palliative care. Further research is required to identify key domains of mutual support between patients and family caregivers in palliative care.
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