Hudson 2005 provided limited evidence that adding a caregiver support component to specialist home palliative care led to caregivers feeling increased rewards from caregiving (Table 51).
Finally, our findings on models of home palliative care reinforced with an extra caregiver support component added no new studies to a systematic review of caregiver interventions in palliative care (Harding 2003; Harding 2011).
There was moderate evidence showing that providing a caregiver support component additional to specialist home palliative care made no statistically significant difference to caregivers' general health (two trials, Table 46), to their psychological well-being (two trials, Table 47), coping (two trials, Table 48) and sense of mastery (two RCTs, Table 49).
McMillan 2007 provided limited evidence showing that adding a caregiver support component to specialist home palliative care had a beneficial effect on patients' symptom burden during the month after enrolment (Table 39); however, no statistically significant differences were found in experience of pain, breathlessness, constipation and quality of life (Table 40; Table 41; Table 42; Table 43).
The VIBeS Plus program is home-based with the infant's primary caregiver a central component in the intervention.
Feeding dynamics includes two central components: (1) caregiver feeding practices (i.e., determining how, when, where, and what they feed their children) and (2) child eating behaviors (i.e., determining how much and what to eat from what food caregivers have provided).
Understanding the multidimensional components of caregiver burden can guide research and, ultimately, interventions designed to improve and maintain the quality of life among this critical component of the US health care system [ 19].
Box 1 LSCTC training components The caregiver has demonstrated a knowledge and understanding of His/her relative having had a stroke (mandatory) What a stroke is (mandatory) His/her relative's specific stroke related problems.
Four models reinforced existing home palliative care with an additional component of caregiver support (Table 3).
After the pilot ended, the first author worked with an additional team and additional agency (including youth and caregivers) to develop intervention components for youth and their foster parents to address emotion regulation issues.
Future research is recommended to focus on matching intervention components to informal caregiver outcomes.
