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Building Family Caregiver Skills Using a Simulation-Based Intervention: A Randomized Pilot Trial

Susan R. Mazanec
Kate Sandstrom
Darlene Coletta
Jennifer Dorth
Chad Zender
Celeste M. Alfes
Barbara J. Daly
ONF 2019, 46(4), 419-427 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.419-427
Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, safety, and fidelity of a psychoeducational intervention to improve family caregiver technical and communication skills using structured simulations. Sample & Setting: 18 family caregivers of adult patients receiving radiation therapy for...
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The Relationships Between Family Primary Caregiver Characteristics and Satisfaction With Hospice Care, Quality of Life, and Burden

Judy L. Meyers
Louis N. Gray
ONF 2001, 73-82 DOI:
Purpose/Objectives: To examine relationships between family primary caregiver characteristics and satisfaction with hospice care, quality of life (QOL), and burden. Design: Exploratory, quantitative. Setting: Five hospice organizations in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Sample: 44 primary...
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Distress Screening for Family Caregivers at a Cancer Surgery Center

Kelly M. Shaffer
Stephanie Benvengo
Alexandra K. Zaleta
Marcia Levine
Courtney Bellantoni
Aimee Dannaoui
Joanne S. Buzaglo
Allison J. Applebaum
ONF 2019, 46(2), 159-169 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.159-169
Objectives: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of a validated electronic distress screening program for cancer caregivers. Sample & Setting: 17 informal caregivers presenting with a patient with cancer to an ambulatory cancer surgery center. Methods & Variables: Caregivers...
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Meaning Making and Religious Engagement Among Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors and Their Caregivers

Em Rabelais
Nora L. Jones
Connie M. Ulrich
Janet A. Deatrick
ONF 2019, 46(2), 170-184 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.170-184
Purpose: To describe how adolescent and young adult survivors and their mother-caregivers ascribe meaning to their post–brain tumor survivorship experience, with a focus on sense making and benefit findings and intersections with religious engagement. Participants & Setting: Adolescent and...
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Mutual Effects of Depression on Quality of Life in Patients and Family Caregivers

Li-Ting Huang
Susan C. McMillan
ONF 2019, 46(2), 208-216 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.208-216
Objectives: To elucidate the importance of mutual effects within dyads by examining the contribution of depression on quality of life (QOL) in patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers (FCs). Sample & Setting: 716 patients with advanced cancer paired with their FCs at two large...
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