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June 13, 2026BMC Palliative CareOpen Access

Supportive care needs and quality of life in caregivers of cancer patients receiving home-based palliative care: a serial mediation model

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TMTuba MetinÖUÖzlem UğurYKYasemin Korkut

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Overview

Cross-sectional study examines caregiver quality of life influenced by patient needs in home-based palliative care, indicating mutual impact.

Key Points

  • Investigate how cancer patients' unmet supportive care needs affect caregivers' quality of life and their own supportive care needs.
  • Cross-sectional design involving 124 cancer patients and 124 caregivers.
  • Utilized serial mediation analysis with the PROCESS Macro (Model 6).
  • Examined relationships between patients' needs, symptom burden, and caregivers' quality of life.
  • Caregivers reported significant supportive care needs (mean = 2.94, SD = 0.80).
  • Quality of life among caregivers was moderate (mean = 70.72, SD = 19.02).
  • A significant serial mediation pathway suggested that patients’ unmet needs and symptom burden negatively impacted caregivers' quality of life (Total indirect effect = - 0.01; 95% CI: - 0.02 to - 0.01).

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Metin et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2cf300faef96ed7f055978https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-026-02126-9
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