LEADER 04519nam 2200541 450 001 9910717366703321 005 20221027223454.0 035 $a(CKB)4100000007389885 035 $a(NjHacI)994100000007389885 035 $a(OCoLC)863667297$z(OCoLC)878436112 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007389885 100 $a20221027d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEffectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders $ea systematic review /$fJoan Griffin [and seven others] 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cDepartment of Veterans Affairs,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (iv, 215 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aEvidence-based synthesis program 300 $a"Evidence-based synthesis program." 300 $a"April 2013." 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aTwo 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. 410 0$aEvidence-based synthesis program (Series) 517 $aEffectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders 606 $aCaregivers$zUnited States 606 $aHome nursing 606 $aMemory disorders 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aTechnical reports.$2lcgft 615 0$aCaregivers 615 0$aHome nursing. 615 0$aMemory disorders. 676 $a362.0425 700 $aGriffin$b Joan$01354245 712 02$aQuality Enhancement Research Initiative (U.S.) 712 02$aMinneapolis VA Health Care System (U.S.).$bVA Evidence Synthesis Program. 712 02$aUnited States.$bDepartment of Veterans Affairs.$bHealth Services Research and Development Service, 712 02$aEvidence-based Synthesis Program (U.S.) 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910717366703321 996 $aEffectiveness of family and caregiver interventions on patient outcomes among adults with cancer or memory-related disorders$93314967 997 $aUNINA