Caregiver exposure to critical events and distress in home-based palliative care in Germany a cross-sectional study using the Stressful Caregiving Adult Reactions to Experiences of Dying (SCARED) scale.
Michael GalatschHolly G PrigersonWilfried SchneppFriederike Zu Sayn-WittgensteinJian LiPublished in: BMC palliative care (2019)
Family caregivers with home-based palliative care in Germany frequently experience exposure to a large number of critical health events in caring for their family members who are terminally ill. These exposures are associated with the family caregiver's degree of fear and helplessness and are associated with their worse general health. Thus the SCARED Scale, which is brief and easy to administer, appears able to identify these potentially upsetting critical health events among family caregivers of palliative care patients receiving care at home. Because it identified commonly encountered critical events in these patients and related them to adverse general health of family caregivers, the SCARED may add to clinically useful screens to identify family caregivers who may be struggling.
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- healthcare
- public health
- advanced cancer
- mental health
- health information
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- physical activity
- emergency department
- newly diagnosed
- human health
- risk assessment
- peritoneal dialysis
- high throughput
- prognostic factors
- dna methylation
- genome wide
- social media
- prefrontal cortex
- affordable care act