Psycho-oncology
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To describe bereaved caregivers' experiences of providing care at home for patients with advanced cancer, while interacting with home care services. ⋯ Caregivers were often thrust into assuming control in order to compensate for deficiencies in formal palliative home care services. Policies, quality indicators, and guidelines are needed to ensure the provision of comprehensive, interdisciplinary home palliative care.
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To examine the associations of worry about affording care and reporting financial difficulties with benefit finding in long-term cancer survivors. ⋯ Our results suggest a complex relationship between financial difficulty, worry, and benefit finding. The combination of worry about affording care and financial difficulty needs to be addressed and further studied among cancer survivors, as the presence of both, but not alone, was negatively associated with making positive changes, an aspect of benefit finding.
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Comment Letter
Is a meta-analytic approach to burnout's prevalence timely?