Table 4.
Perceived additional support would have been helpful comparing people who cared for someone with end-stage lung disease and other caregivers for people at the end of life.
| Domains | End-stage lung disease (128) | % | Other diagnoses (1151) |
% | p value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical care | Help with physical care | 27 | 12.6 | 187 | 16.2 | 0.163 | |
| Help with medications | 7 | 5.4 | 72 | 6.3 | 0.848# | ||
| Help with symptom control | 13 | 10.2 | 115 | 10.0 | 0.950 | ||
| Information | Information about what to expect | 15 | 11.7 | 159 | 13.8 | 0.514 | |
| Information about services | 14 | 10.9 | 126 | 10.9 | 0.977 | ||
| Emotional/spiritual support | Emotional support for the caregiver | 8 | 6.2 | 143 | 12.4 | 0.043# | |
| Emotional support for the person who died | 11 | 8.6 | 157 | 13.6 | 0.110 | ||
| Other emotional support | 7 | 5.5 | 58 | 5.0 | 0.831# | ||
| Additional spiritual support | 1 | 0.8 | 49 | 4.3 | 0.054# | ||
| Financial support | Additional financial support | 4 | 3.1 | 76 | 6.6 | 0.175# | |
| Bereavement Support | Bereavement support | 5 | 3.9 | 86 | 7.5 | 0.150# | |
*Using a Bonferroni correction, a significant p value is 0.0045
#Fisher's exact test used.