Family caregivers experience many challenges during the time of bereavement, mainly to do with a lack of support, difficult and overwhelming emotions, and the recovery from the physical and emotional challenges of caregiving. A significant number of bereaved caregivers will … [Read more...]
Exploring Palliative Care in Corrections: A Scoping Review
Background: Palliative care and the prison setting are diametrically opposed in their objectives. However, a high portion of those who are incarcerated in today’s prisons are aging, becoming infirm, and/or suffering life threatening diseases. Thus, increasingly, palliative care … [Read more...]
Honoring the voices of bereaved caregivers: A metasynthesis of qualitative research with bereaved caregivers
Issue to be addressed: What is the experience of bereavement for family caregivers after the death of the patient? Many of Canada’s almost 1 million family caregivers will become bereaved each year, as more than 68% of the 238,000 deaths in Canada in 2009 were due to a chronic … [Read more...]
Exploring Uncertainty and Chronicity in Women’s Experiences of Ovarian Cancer
Meridith Burles (Supervisor: Lorraine Holtslander) College of Nursing University of Saskatchewan Email: meridith.burles@usask.ca Dr. Burles is conducting a qualitative study that aims: to understand the ways in which women experience ovarian cancer as a chronic illness, and … [Read more...]
A Finding Balance Concept Development
The concept of finding balance in bereavement is unique and requires further development. A team composed of Dr. Wendy Duggleby, Dr. Ulrich Teucher, Dr. Meridith Burles, and Jill Bally, PhD(c) is currently in the process of applying the hybrid model of concept development to … [Read more...]
Content Validity of a Finding Balance Scale for Bereaved Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Approach
Finding balance was described by bereaved caregivers as “walking a fine line between deep grieving and moving on”. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a Finding Balance scale from qualitative research interview data. The thirty items for the original scale were … [Read more...]
A Finding Balance Grounded Theory
Research regarding cancer patients has become increasingly more prevalent, however research regarding the needs of their family caregivers is lacking, even more so, their experience of bereavement after caregiving ends. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which … [Read more...]
A Finding Balance Writing Intervention
The overall purpose of this study is to develop and pilot-test a self-administered, theory-based “finding balance” writing intervention for older adults who are bereaved after caregiving for a spouse with cancer. Often support systems may not be adequate after caregiving ends … [Read more...]