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Table 4 End of Life Caregiving Studies

From: Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review

Authors

Study design

Number of Caregivers

Patient Condition

Angelo, J 2014 [26] New Zealand

Phenomenology

6

Not specified

Aoun, SM 2012 [27] Australia

Thematic analysis

16

motor neurone disease

Armstrong MJ, 2019 [28] United States

Qualitative descriptive

30

Dementia with Lewy bodies

Bentley, B, 2016 [29] Australia

Thematic analysis

12

motor neurone disease

Carlander, I, 2011 [30] Sweden

Descriptive

10

Not specified

Cipolletta, S 2015 [31] Italy

Phenomenology

13

motor neurone disease

Clukey, L, 2007 [32] USA

Phenomenology

22

Cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis

Clukey, L, 2008 [33] USA

Thematic analysis

9

Not specified

Coristine, M, 2003 [34] Canada

Content analysis

18

Breast cancer

Dobrina, R, 2016 [35] Italy

Descriptive phenomenology

114

Cancer

Dumont, I, 2008 [36] Canada

Content analysis

18

Cancer

Fisker, T, 2007 [37] Denmark

Phenomenology

8

Not specified

Glass, AP, 2016 [38] USA

Case study

28

Alzheimer’s

Grbich, CF, 2001 [39] Australia

Thematic analysis

12

Cancer

Hasson, F, 2010 [40] Northern Ireland

Content analysis

15

Parkinson’s disease

Hasson, F, 2009 [41] Northern Ireland

Thematic analysis

9

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Hisamatsu M, 2020 [42] Japan

Grounded theory

13

Cancer

Hovland CA, 2019 [43] USA

Content analysis

36

Dementia

Hughes, M, 2015 [44] Australia

Thematic analysis

28

Not specified

Johnson, A, 2003 [45] Australia

Narrative exemplars

1

Not specified

Kalnins, I, 2006 [46] Latvia

Phenomenology

18

cancer, stroke, heart disease

Linderholm, M, 2010 [47] Sweden

Hermeneutic analysis

14

Cancer

Lyckhage, ED, 2013 [48] Sweden

Phenomenological

6

Not specified

Mangan, PA, 2003 [49] USA

Constant comparison

15

Cancer

Mohammed, S, 2018 [50] Canada

Grounded theory

61

Cancer

Mori, H, 2012 [51] Japan

Framework analysis

34

Cancer

Ortega-Galán, 2019 [52] Spain

Phenomenology

81

Not specified

Payne, S, 2015 [53] England

Cross-sectional

59

Cancer, other

Robinson, C, 2017 [54] Canada

Constant comparison

29

Cancer

Sheehy-Skeffington, B, 2014 [55] Ireland

Thematic content analysis

16

Cancer, heart failure

Sinding, C, 2003 [56] Canada

Grounded theory

12

Breast cancer

Stajduhar, KI, 2013 [5] Canada

Secondary analysis of qualitative data

114

Not specified

Stone, AM, 2012 [57] USA

Constant comparison

35

Lung cancer

Strang, VR, 2003 [58] Canada

Not specified

15

Cancer

Strauss S, 2019 [59] USA

Discourse analysis

46

Not specified

Thomas, C, 2018 [60] England

Cross-sectional

30

Cancer, other

Totman, J, 2015 [61] England

Framework analysis

15

Cancer

Turner, M, England [62] England

Secondary analysis

17

Cancer, other

Vachon M, 2020 [63] Canada

Phenomenology

22

Not specified

Warrier MG, 2019 [64] India

Thematic analysis

 

Motor neuron disease

Wong, WK, 2009 [65] Australia

Thematic analysis

23

Cancer

Wu MP, 2020 [66] Taiwan

Grounded theory

22

Not specified