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Resilience in advanced cancer caregiving. A systematic review and meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Close relatives provide much of the care to people with cancer. As resilience can shield family caregivers from mental health problems, there has been a burgeoning interest in resilience-promoting interventions. However, the evidence necessary for the development of these interventions is scant and unsynthesized.

Aim

To create an overall picture of evidence on resilience in cancer caregiving by a theory-driven meta-synthesis.

Design

In this systematically constructed review a thematic synthesis approach has been applied. The original findings were coded and structured deductively according to the theoretical framework. Consequently, the codes were organized inductively into themes and subthemes.