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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1104895?casa_token=bJfmbABbk-4AAAAA:UBClY0bOUSpKTTaYlzFzzRYBE85K3oAXchDEXGCOLRS2y3AiDROGCAosnVKNyCT4-zTMoy9X3iQ

“This experience is commonly perceived as a chronic stressor, and caregivers often experience negative psychological, behavioral, and physiological effects on their daily lives and health”

In a case study analyzing a husband and his wife who serves as his caregiver it’s noted that “Despite no history of preexisting mental health conditions, the caregiver reported high levels of psychological distress, including anxiety, depression, worry, and extreme loneliness prior to her husband’s transplant”.

Caregiving is labor intensive, with approximately one-quarter of those caring for cancer patients spending in excess of 40 hours a week providing these services to family or friends.

The level of distress reported by many of those caring for someone with cancer can be equal to or greater than that of the cancer patient, with adult daughters seeming to have the greatest difficulties.

Further complicating matters, caregivers of cancer patients prioritize the needs of the patient over their own, leaving little time for maintaining good nutrition, exercising, and undertaking health evaluations

Brief screening questionnaires can be helpful in a busy clinical environment (TABLE 1). Caregivers can complete the questionnaire independently and the responses are easy to interpret by a nurse, social worker, or physician who then can provide guidance regarding possible referrals for specialized care.

Community or Web-based resources for caregivers are plentiful

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Care for the cancer caregiver: A systematic review | Palliative & Supportive Care | Cambridge Core

• "The largest category of studies included in this review was psycho educational interventions. These interventions positively impacted ICs’ knowledge base and ability to provide care, and several also led to improvements in psychological correlates of burden (i.e., depressive and anxious symptomatology) and patient functioning"
• "The majority of the problem-solving/skills-building interventions (Table 2) were successful in improving ICs’ ability (and confidence in these abilities) to provide care, including the ability to assess and manage patients’ symptoms, identify solutions to problems that arose during caregiving, and enhance ICs’ overall ability to cope with this role. In the study conducted by Bevans et al. (2010), participants attended 90% of sessions and reported high levels of program satisfaction, which further highlights the benefits of delivery of treatment to ICs concurrent with patients’ medical care".