TABLE 2.

Overview of Results

Type of Support	Impact of Dyadic Care	Quotes
Emotional	Reduces stress	“If you go separately it puts more stress on each individual”
	Provides comfort	“Just the comfort of another person being there, in this case, this is your partner, this is someone you love, this is someone that loves you and for that to be, to provide a lot of comfort for you during, going through this”
	Establishes empathy	“It creates a level of empathy. You’re both able to emotionally support each other through the particular hardship of the side effects and things like that. A layer of understanding”
Informational	Increases understanding in information received from doctor	“One of them might understand something more than the other might understand. So they work it out together and get the right information”
	Allows space for additional questions in order to receive more information from the doctor	“It kind of helps fill in the blanks. I know frequently when I go to the doctor and then I come home and my partner is asking me XYZ and I’m like ‘OK, you should have been there I guess because I didn’t think to ask that question.’ You get a little overwhelmed sometimes. So hopefully with each other being there, it would be beneficial to get more information from the doctors”
	Increases transparency in the information shared with the doctor	“It would also though really lead to honesty… something that’s going to bring things to light. So hey, OK, you know, you’re not being honest with the doctor here or it’s obvious that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do and if you’re partners you would know that anyway”
	Creates concerns regarding confidentiality and privacy	“The candidness between me and the doctor and… what I might want to express to my doctor… I don’t have to filter myself because… depending on where we are in our relationship, I may not want to share some things… that my doctor might need to know”
Instrumental	Increases accountability through accompaniment	“Normally a single person, they can miss doctor’s appointments. So if you’re going as partners, one can motivate the other. If you don’t feel like going, drag them along and vice versa”
	Enables partners to establish a financial plan	“They can find out together about will they be able to afford the medicine or how to get the medicine through insurance; they can take care of that together”
	Increases accountability through facilitation of reminders	“One of the benefits of [the partners] going through this together is they have a… better chance of taking their medications on time because they can remind each other and constantly ask, ‘did you remember to take your medicine?’”