ArticlePalliative medicine reports
Nursing Support for Cancer Symptoms and Caregiver Burden in General Wards: Protocol for a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan.
Article in Palliative medicine reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: General ward nurses increasingly care for patients with advanced cancer; however, the implementation of evidence-based nursing support remains unclear. Multicenter palliative care unit (PCU) surveys quantified nursing practices for major cancer-related symptoms and caregiver burden using systematically developed item sets; however, findings from PCU settings may not directly generalize to general wards, given differences in staffing, patient populations, and resources. Objectives: To describe the frequency of nonpharmacological nursing for five cancer-related symptoms (pain, dyspnea, nausea/vomiting, constipation, and delirium) and family caregiver burden provided by general ward nurses in Japan. Methods: We will conduct a multicenter, cross-sectional, web-based survey (Jan-Mar 2026) in designated cancer care hospitals nationwide. Registered nurses working in general wards will report their opportunities to provide symptom-related support in the past 12 months and the frequency of specific practices on a 5-point Likert scale. Item sets are based on scoping reviews and prior PCU surveys and will be refined through pretesting with general ward nurses. Primary outcomes are proportions reporting frequent use of each item; analyses will summarize overall and symptom-specific distributions, excluding respondents with no opportunity. Target sample size is 1,300-1,500, estimated using dyspnea and accounting for clustering. Expected Implications: This study will provide nationally representative evidence on nursing support practices in general wards. The findings will inform targeted educational strategies by identifying potential gaps suggested by the observed frequencies of reported practices and enabling contextual interpretation in relation to prior PCU findings, thereby supporting future interventions, strengthening evidence-based palliative care.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.