48. Caregiver general health: reinforced versus standard home palliative care.

Study	Measure	Analysis	Follow‐up	Significance and direction	Details
Walsh 2007 UK	General Heath Questionnaire (GHQ‐28) score: range not stated; higher scores equal more psychological distress; analysis used cut‐off of 5/6; caregiver report	Forwards from enrolment	4 weeks	Participants below GHQ‐28 threshold (5/6) at any follow‐up point with no relapse n.s. Intervention: 21/100 (21%) vs. control: 21/91 (23%) Chi2 0.73 P value = 0.73 Participants below GHQ‐28 threshold (5/6) at any follow‐up point n.s. Intervention: 35/100 (35%) vs. control: 29/91 (32%) Chi2 0.65 P value = 0.76	Intervention (n = 97): M 10.5 (SD 6.3) Control (n = 85): M 11.9 (SD 6.4)
			9 weeks		Intervention (n = 70): M 9.3 (SD 6.5) Control (n = 64): M 10.7 (SD 7.3)
			12 weeks		Intervention (n = 69): M 11.3 (SD 7.3) Control (n = 54): M 11.7 (SD 7.8)
Harding 2004 UK	General Health Questionnaire (GHQ‐12) score: range not stated; higher scores equal higher levels of problems or difficulties; caregiver report	Forwards from enrolment	8 weeks	n.s.a b (effect) ‐0.12 P value = 0.42	Sample at 8 weeks (n = 41): Intervention: M 12.5 (SD 4.5) Control: M 14.9 (SD 5.7)
			5 months	n.s.a b (effect) ‐0.15 P value = 0.45	Sample at 5 months (n = 26): Intervention: M 12.3 (SD 4.2) Control: M 16.6 (SD 7.5)

M: mean; n.s.: non‐significant; SD: standard deviation.

^aResults from multivariate regression on change scores from baseline.