Holtslander Lorraine F, McMillan Susan C
College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.
Oncol Nurs Forum. 2011 Jan;38(1):60-5. doi: 10.1188/11.ONF.60-65.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: to describe depressive symptoms, grief, and complicated grief for bereaved family caregivers of patients who died from cancer-related causes and to explore relationships among these variables.
a nonexperimental, secondary analysis of cross-sectional descriptive data from a longitudinal intervention study evaluating the effect of providing feedback from standardized assessment tools.
two large, private, not-for-profit hospices in Florida.
convenience sample of 280 family caregivers, bereaved three months.
secondary analysis of self-report, survey data three months following death.
depressive symptoms, grief, and complicated grief.
Three months after the loss of a loved one, 34% of the caregivers had clinically meaningful scores for depressive symptoms. A significant number of bereaved caregivers were experiencing grief and depression.
bereaved caregivers were experiencing significant levels of depressive symptoms and complicated grief. Caregivers with higher levels of grief had more depressive symptoms.
tools are available to identify bereaved caregivers most in need of intervention.
目的/目标：描述因癌症相关原因去世患者的丧亲家庭照顾者的抑郁症状、悲伤和复杂性悲伤，并探讨这些变量之间的关系。
对一项纵向干预研究的横断面描述性数据进行非实验性二次分析，该研究评估了提供标准化评估工具反馈的效果。
佛罗里达州的两家大型私立非营利性临终关怀机构。
280名丧亲三个月的家庭照顾者的便利样本。
对死亡三个月后的自我报告调查数据进行二次分析。
抑郁症状、悲伤和复杂性悲伤。
在失去亲人三个月后，34%的照顾者有具有临床意义的抑郁症状评分。大量丧亲照顾者正在经历悲伤和抑郁。
丧亲照顾者正经历着显著程度的抑郁症状和复杂性悲伤。悲伤程度较高的照顾者有更多的抑郁症状。
有工具可用于识别最需要干预的丧亲照顾者。
