Development of a home-visit nursing scale for helping spousal caregivers of terminal cancer patients develop positive perspectives of their caregiving experiences: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Home-visit nurses play a key role in supporting the spouses of terminal cancer patients and encouraging positive perspectives of the caregiving experience. This study aimed to develop a scale to support nurses in self-assessing their practice around this important role.

Design

Cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Setting

The Home Nursing Scale to Help Spousal Caregivers (HNS-HSC) questionnaire for self-assessment of home-visit nursing to spouses was developed based on interviews with spouses and literature reviews.

Participants

Overall, 1500 home-visit nurses nationwide who had experience in supporting spousal caregivers and their patients in the predeath and postdeath periods were approached for participation.

Main outcome measure

Planned expl

SUBMITTER: Karikawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924790 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature