abstract background: poor interaction of treatment personnel with patients’ families leads to informational contrast in families, which may ultimately increase the tension and pressure in these conditions. considering the necessity of caregivers’ contribution for an optimized treatment, continuation of care, and supporting patients, and with regard to caregivers’ important role, and also consid...

objectives: since support for family caregivers is crucial in providing care for elderly, this study was conducted to examine the effects of participation in support groups on alzheimer’s family caregivers’ strain and spiritual wellbeing. materials and methods & materials: in this semi-experimental study, 32 accessible family caregivers of elderly patients with alzheimer who had at least one ye...

abstract background: lack of adequate training and support of primary caregivers of multiple sclerosis (ms) patients is the major factor in causing stress, anxiety, and increase of burden. therefore, the treatment team members such as psychiatric nurses can help these vulnerable people overcome psychiatric pressures effectively not only through their care and referral role but also through thei...

a bstract background: living with heart failure patients is a complex situation for family caregivers. few studies have been conducted to examine the effects of interventional programs to ease this condition. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a supportive educative group intervention in reducing family caregivers’ burden of caregiving.   materials and methods: this...

conclusions it appears that the patient-caregiver education and follow-up program had a beneficial effect on the caregiver strain index compared to the usual care. results the caregiver strain index decreased significantly in the intervention group after the patient-caregiver education and follow-up (p < 0.001), while the control group’s scores did not change (p = 0.04). background in recent ye...

abstract background: the family of cancer patients experience burden of care because of their caring role. therefore, appropriate and effective interventions are essential in order to decrease burden. the goal of the present research was to determine the effect of a family need–based program on the burden of care in caregivers of leukemia patients. materials and methods: in this clinical resear...

The present study used structural equation modeling to examine the potential mediating effect of family conflict on caregiver strain in a randomly drawn household sample of 650 adults with primary care responsibility for an adult age 50 or older with a mental disability. Caregiver strain was directly influenced by the conflict, disagreements, and hardships experienced by the caregiver’s family....

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between family caregiver presence and patient completion of the Care Transitions Intervention (CTI), a patient activation model that provides transitional care coaching for 30 days following hospital discharge. STUDY DESIGN A convenience sample of 2747 fee-for-service Medicare patients recruited for the CTI during inpatient medical hospitalizations at 6 ...

OBJECTIVES To assess caregiver burden as well as positive aspects of family caregiving in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF), and chronic renal failure (CRF). DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Patients recruited at the outpatient clinics of academic and general hospitals in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Patients with advanc...