Purpose/Objectives: To examine the relationship between caregiver burden and symptom distress in patients with terminal cancer who are enrolled in hospice. Design: Descriptive, quantitative. Setting: A large, metropolitan, nonprofit-based organization in west central Florida. Sample: Convenience...

Purpose/Objectives: Determine the impact of a 16-week supportive nursing intervention on caregivers of patients with newly diagnosed cancer. Design: Randomized clinical trial. Setting: Two midwestern cancer treatment sites. Sample: Caregivers of newly diagnosed patients. Patients' mean age was 55...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe family caregivers’ perceptions of time spent and difficulty experienced with performing specific caregiving tasks for patients with lung cancer. To compare adult child and spousal caregivers in relation to time and difficulty of tasks. Design: A secondary analysis of...