Supportive Care

Research by A. Milberg and Colleagues in Supportive Care Provides New Insights

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 5th, 2011

2011 APR 5 -- According to recent research from Norrkoping, Sweden, "Staff members in palliative home care play an important role in supporting bereaved family members. The aim of this study was to explore staff members' perspectives on providing such support."

"Staff members in six units responded (n = 120; response rate 58%) to a postal questionnaire with Likert-type and open-ended questions. The responses were analyzed using statistics and manifest content analysis. None of the respondents stated that bereavement follow-up was ''most often difficult,'' 23% ''most often rather difficult,'' 52.5% ''most often rather easy,'' and 12.5% ''most often easy.''...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-04-05)

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