Brenna Mossman , Lisa Molix , Damian R. Murray , Laura M. Perry , Seowoo Kim , Michael Hoerger
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Impact of a psychoeducational intervention to improve caregiver knowledge and attitudes toward palliative cancer care
Objectives
To evaluate the efficacy of a psychoeducational intervention in improving palliative care knowledge and attitudes among caregivers, patients’ close friends and families.
Methods
A total of 150 adult cancer caregivers participated in an online U.S.-based randomized clinical trial (RCT) between December 2021 and March 2022. Participants self-reported their baseline knowledge of palliative care, then viewed a psychoeducational video on palliative care (intervention condition) or nutrition (control condition). Participants then completed outcome measures of palliative care knowledge (aim 1; Palliative Care Knowledge Scale, PaCKS) and attitudes (aim 2; Palliative Care Attitudes Scale-9-Caregiver, PCAS-9C). Regression analyses examined whether group assignment significantly predicted palliative care knowledge and attitudes while controlling for self-reported baseline knowledge and key demographic and clinical characteristics.
Results
The PaCKS and PCAS-9C demonstrated excellent evidence of reliability, factor structure, and validity in this caregiver sample. The RCT succeeded on the primary outcome of increasing caregivers’ palliative care knowledge (p < .001). Attitudes were favorable and did not differ between groups.
Conclusions
This study demonstrates that a single-session, psychoeducational video can improve understanding of palliative care among close friends and families of those with cancer.
Practice implications
This work suggests future pathways for helping families make informed decisions about initiating palliative care.
期刊介绍:
Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers and clinicians. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate the educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of organizational issues involved with the delivery of patient education, counseling, health promotion services and training models in improving communication between providers and patients.