Factors Associated with Family Caregivers' Confidence in Future Surrogate Decision Making for Persons with Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Background: Improving family caregiver preparation for surrogate decision making is a critical priority. Objective: Determine a parsimonious set of intrapersonal factors associated with family caregivers' confidence in making future medical decisions for their relatives with cancer. Methods: Cross-sectional mail survey. Family caregivers of Medicare beneficiaries with pancreatic, lung, brain, ovarian, head and neck, hematologic, and stage IV cancers from communities of eight U.S. cancer centers. Participants completed validated measures of their social and mental health, self-care behaviors, coping styles, and surrogate decision-making confidence. Using linear modeling, the Bayesian information criterion was used to identify factors associated with

SUBMITTER: Dionne-Odom JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6308286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature