Home Hospice Caregivers’ Perceived Information Needs

A psychometric analysis of the spiritual needs inventory in informal caregivers of patients with cancer in hospice home care.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the validity and reliability of the Spiritual Needs Inventory (SNI) in measuring the spiritual needs of informal caregivers of patients with cancer in hospice home care. DESIGN A subanalysis of a longitudinal, randomized hospice clinical trial. SETTING Two hospices in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 410 informal caregivers of patients with cancer in hospi...

Information needs as perceived by caregivers and patients following stroke: a qualitative systematic review

Materials and methods Literature search involved main databases namely EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Database (CINAHL), Psych INFO and British Nursing Index (BNI) through library online service.

Proceedings of the Home Healthcare , Hospice , and Information Technology

Spouse cancer caregivers' burden and distress at entry to home hospice: The role of relationship quality.

High-quality relationships may be protective for family caregivers. This study focuses on relationship quality categories (supportive and ambivalent) in spouse caregivers in cancer home hospice. The goals of this article are to, first, describe relationship quality categories among end-of-life caregivers and, second, test the effects of relationship quality categories on caregiver burden and di...

Stress variances among informal hospice caregivers.

Care interventions are not routinely provided for hospice caregivers, despite widespread documentation of the burden and toll of the caregiving experience. Assessing caregivers for team interventions (ACT) proposes that holistic patient and family care includes ongoing caregiver needs assessment of primary, secondary, and intrapsychic stressors. In this study, our goal was to describe the varia...