OBJECTIVES Family caregivers of children who depend on medical technology (CMT) provide highly skilled care up to 24 hours per day. Sleep disruption places family caregivers at risk for poor health and related outcomes that threaten their long-term caregiving capacity. Few studies exist that have measured sleep in family caregivers, and most have relied entirely on subjective measures. METHOD...

BACKGROUND Family caregivers play a central yet under recognized role in ensuring quality and safety during a loved one's transition out of the hospital. OBJECTIVE To explore facilitators and challenges family caregivers face in assuming postdischarge family caregiving roles and completing complex care tasks. METHODS A qualitative study recruited 32 participants from 4 sites. Participants w...

BACKGROUND Although cancer has been considered as a chronic disease for those diagnosed, the long-term impact of cancer on the family caregivers' quality of life (QOL) remains unknown. Thus, the current study aimed: (a) to characterize family caregivers of cancer survivors, (b) to describe the multidimensional aspects of QOL of family caregivers of cancer survivors, and (c) to identify demograp...

Aim: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic progressive neurological diseases and is regarded as the non-traumatic cause of neurological disability in youth. The Multiple sclerosis patients need for family caregiver increasingly grows due to the progressive course of the disease, which worsens the symptoms over time. Family caregivers of this group of patients are subject to ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the effectiveness of a two-to-three session family therapeutic conversation intervention (FAM-TCI) for primary and partner caregivers of children and adolescents in active cancer treatment on perceived family support and on expressive family functioning. DESIGN Quasiexperimental; one group pre- and post-test. SETTING Inpatient cancer unit and a day treatment cance...