ArticleBMC palliative care2022
The influence of symptom severity of palliative care patients on their family caregivers.
Article in BMC palliative care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06154759 (The Effect of Psycoeducation Based on The Watson's Human Caring Model Provided To The Relatives Of Palliative Care Patients on Hopelessness, Death Anxiıety, And Burden of Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effect of Psycoeducation Based on The Watson's Human Caring Model Provided To The Relatives Of Palliative Care Patients on Hopelessness, Death Anxiıety, And Burden of Care
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- Family Members' Explanatory Models of Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Benefit finding among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in a palliative treatment: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Spiritual Distress, Hopelessness, and Depression in Palliative Care: Simultaneous Concept Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Perceptions of Learners and Specialists Toward ECHO Palliative Care Project in Thailand.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis study anlyzed whether family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer suffer impaired sleep quality, increased strain, reduced quality of life or increased care burden due to the presence and heightened intensity of symptoms in the person being cared for.
methodA total of 41 patient-caregiver dyads (41 caregivers and 41 patients with advanced cancer) were recruited at six primary care centres in this cross-sectional study. Data were obtained over a seven-month period. Caregiver's quality of sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), caregiver's quality of life (Quality of Life Family Version), caregiver strain (Caregiver Strain Index), patients' symptoms and their intensity (Edmonton Symptom Assessment System), and sociodemographic, clinical and care-related data variables were assessed. The associations were determined using non-parametric Spearman correlation.
resultsTotal Edmonton Symptom Assessment System was significantly related to overall score of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (r = 0.365, p = 0.028), the Caregiver Strain Index (r = 0.45, p = 0.005) and total Quality of Life Family Version (r = 0.432, p = 0.009), but not to the duration of daily care (r = -0.152, p = 0.377).
conclusionsFamily caregivers for patients with advanced cancer suffer negative consequences from the presence and intensity of these patients' symptoms. Therefore, optimising the control of symptoms would benefit not only the patients but also their caregivers. Thus, interventions should be designed to improve the outcomes of patient-caregiver dyads in such cases.
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