04519nam 2200541 450 991071736670332120221027223454.0(CKB)4100000007389885(NjHacI)994100000007389885(OCoLC)863667297(OCoLC)878436112(EXLCZ)99410000000738988520221027d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEffectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders a systematic review /Joan Griffin [and seven others]Washington, DC :Department of Veterans Affairs,[2013]©20131 online resource (iv, 215 pages) illustrationsEvidence-based synthesis program"Evidence-based synthesis program.""April 2013."Includes bibliographical references.Two federal laws have been signed in the last five years that have expanded the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) authority to provide services to families of Veterans. This expansion allows the VHA to provide a number of clinical and support services, training, and education to families and caregivers of patients with service connected and non-service connected injuries or conditions. The VHA has responded by initiating a set of support services, including counseling, a caregiver support line, and website, to support families and caregivers of Veterans.^With this new authorization, there is now the potential to adopt or integrate additional family-involved interventions to improve Veterans' outcomes.^This review's aim was to evaluate which interventions are efficacious in affecting patient outcomes for memory-related disorders or cancer.^Family and caregiver interventions, especially interventions targeted to caregivers caring for someone with a physical health condition, typically aim to develop caregiver skills to manage their caregiving tasks and to reduce caregiver burden. An often implicit assumption in these interventions is that by reducing caregiver burden and improving caregiver skills, the care recipient will also benefit. Reflecting this, the majority of family-focused intervention studies and reviews of these studies have concentrated only on family or caregiver outcomes.^We conducted a systematic review of interventions that explicitly tested this assumption.^We evaluated the published evidence assessing whether family involved interventions improve patient outcomes (i.e., efficacy) and whether specific family involved interventions are better than alternative ones (i.e., specificity or comparative effectiveness).^We specifically examined the effects of family-involved interventions on the patients, not on the family members. We assessed if there is evidence that interventions targeted at family members only or both family members and adult care recipients improve the patients' outcomes. We limited our focus to family members caring for those with cancer and memory-related conditions since the majority of studies examine one of these two conditions. This project was nominated by Sonja Batten, PhD, Office of Mental Health Services. The key questions and scope were refined with input from a technical expert panel.Evidence-based synthesis program (Series)Effectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders CaregiversUnited StatesHome nursingMemory disordersUnited StatesfastTechnical reports.lcgftCaregiversHome nursing.Memory disorders.362.0425Griffin Joan1354245Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (U.S.)Minneapolis VA Health Care System (U.S.).VA Evidence Synthesis Program.United States.Department of Veterans Affairs.Health Services Research and Development Service,Evidence-based Synthesis Program (U.S.)NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910717366703321Effectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders3314967UNINA01054nas a2200277 i 450099100258578970753620231114120814.0011205m19499999 || | |eng 0013-1989b11680040-39ule_instPERLE003303ExLCDU 79Educational theatre journalEducational theatre journal /American Educational Theatre Association. - 1949-1978Indiana-Washington,1949-1978Pubblica supplementi monografici.Codice CNR: P 00053481LE021 1956-1960;1962-1965; lac.: 1960;American Educational Theatre Associationauthorhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut735402Theatre journal.b1168004007-11-1408-07-02991002585789707536LE0211le021-E0.00-no 180000.i1190793908-07-02Educational theatre journal1452841UNISALENTOle02101-01-01sa -engxx 01