Patient-reported outcome measures for cancer caregivers: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Informal caregivers provide invaluable help and support to people with cancer. As treatments extend survival and the potential burdens on carers increase, there is a need to assess the impact of the role. This systematic review identified instruments that measure the impact of caregiving, evaluated their psychometric performance specifically in cancer and appraised the content.

Methods

A two-stage search strategy was employed to: (1) identify instruments that measure the impact of caregiving, and (2) run individual searches on each measure to identify publications evaluating psychometric performance in the target population. Searches were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycINFO and restricted to English for instrument used and article language. Psychometric

SUBMITTER: Shilling V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945691 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature