Psychosocial care of patients with head and neck cancer

JL Penner - Seminars in oncology nursing, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To identify the psychosocial challenges experienced by individuals with head
and neck cancer and their family caregivers and discuss future research opportunities in the …

Study design, precision, and validity in observational studies

MDA Carlson, RS Morrison - Journal of palliative medicine, 2009 - liebertpub.com
THE USE OF OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS in the field of palliative care is vital
to building the evidence base, identifying best practices, and understanding disparities in …

Exploring the other side of cancer care: the informal caregiver

E Papastavrou, A Charalambous, H Tsangari - European Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To identify the caregiver outcomes among relatives caring for patients with
cancer and to examine the patient and family caregiver variables that predicted for caregiver …

Caring for a person in advanced illness and suffering from breathlessness at home: threats and resources

MH Gysels, IJ Higginson - Palliative & supportive care, 2009 - cambridge.org
Objective: Little is known about the factors that mediate the caregiving experience of
informal carers at home, which could inform about ways of supporting them in their …

Support needs of patients with oral cancer and burden to their family caregivers

SC Chen, MC Tsai, CL Liu, WP Yu, CT Liao… - Cancer …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Oral cancer patients' supportive care needs during the postoperative period can impact their
family caregivers' burden. The purposes of this study were to (1) examine patients' perceived …

Perceptions of economic hardship and emotional health in a pilot sample of family caregivers

SE Bradley, PR Sherwood, J Kuo… - Journal of Neuro …, 2009 - Springer
Although several studies have quantified costs of cancer care; none to date have examined
how cancer costs impact family caregivers' emotional health. This study was designed to …

Caregiving Consequences Inventory: a measure for evaluating caregiving consequences from the bereaved family member's perspective

M Sanjo, T Morita, M Miyashita… - … Oncology: Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: The aims of this study were to validate an instrument for measuring bereaved
family members' perceptions of caregiving consequences and to examine the association …

癌末病患主要家屬照顧者照顧負荷及其影響因素之探討

洪淑惠, 張肇松, 林淑媛, 謝秀芳 - 護理暨健康照護研究, 2009 - airitilibrary.com
背景癌末病患的家屬照顧者承受不少的照顧壓力, 忽略家屬照顧者的壓力,
導致其健康受損及影響病患的照護品質. 目的在探討癌末病患主要家屬照顧者之自覺健康和疲憊 …

Family caregivers

BR Ferrell, P Mazanec - Geriatric oncology: Treatment, assessment and …, 2009 - Springer
Caregiving an elder with cancer has the potential to be rewarding and meaningful but is
often described as burdensome and overwhelming because caregiver needs are frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Reconciling employment with caring for a husband with an advanced illness

M Gysels, IJ Higginson - BMC Health Services Research, 2009 - Springer
Background Little is known about combining work with caring for a person with advanced
illness. This is important given the increasing number of women in the workforce and current …