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A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Palliative Care, August 2010
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Title
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients
Published in
BMC Palliative Care, August 2010
DOI 10.1186/1472-684x-9-17
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Authors

Peter L Hudson, Cheryl Remedios, Kristina Thomas

Abstract

Being a family carer to a patient nearing the end of their life is a challenging and confronting experience. Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences on the health of family carers including fatigue, sleep problems, depression, anxiety and burnout. One of the goals of palliative care is to provide psychosocial support to patients and families facing terminal illness. A systematic review of interventions for family carers of cancer and palliative care patients conducted at the start of this millennium demonstrated that there was a dearth of rigorous inquiry on this topic and consequently limited knowledge regarding the types of interventions likely to be effective in meeting the complex needs of family carers. We wanted to discern whether or not the evidence base to support family carers has improved. Furthermore, undertaking this review was acknowledged as one of the priorities for the International Palliative Care Family Carer Research Collaboration http://www.centreforpallcare.org.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 3 1%
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Cyprus 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 279 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 49 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 15%
Researcher 31 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 29 10%
Student > Bachelor 28 10%
Other 54 18%
Unknown 57 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 82 28%
Psychology 56 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 46 16%
Social Sciences 24 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 2%
Other 14 5%
Unknown 64 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2019.
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#6,718,282
of 22,745,803 outputs
Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#734
of 1,246 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,142
of 94,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#1
of 3 outputs
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