Caregiver-guided pain coping skills training for patients with advanced cancer: Results from a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is a major concern among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. Evidence suggests that pain coping skills training interventions can improve outcomes, however they have rarely been tested in this population.

Aim

To test the efficacy of a caregiver-guided pain coping skills training intervention. The primary outcome was caregiver self-efficacy for helping the patient manage pain.

Design

A randomized controlled trial compared the intervention to an enhanced treatment-as-usual control. Dyads in both conditions received pain education, and those in the intervention received three sessions of pain coping skills training. Caregiver outcomes (self-efficacy; caregiver strain, caregiving satisfaction, psychological distress) and patient outc

SUBMITTER: Porter LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8265951 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature