Patient-caregiver concordance on death preparedness over Taiwanese cancer patients' last 6 months.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Worldwide patient-caregiver concordance on cognitive prognostic awareness (PA) has been extensively examined, but concordance on sufficient (ie, cognitive and emotional) death preparedness is unexplored. We comprehensively examine the evolution of patient-caregiver concordance on death preparedness over the patient's last 6 months.

Materials/methods

This study re-examined data from 2 cohort studies on 694 dyads of cancer patients and their caregivers recruited from a single medical center in Taiwan. Patient and caregiver death-preparedness states were individually identified by latent transition analysis. Patient-caregiver concordance was examined by percentages and kappa coefficients.

Results

No-, cognitive-, emotional-, and sufficient-death-preparedness s

SUBMITTER: Wen FH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12311301 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature