Table 1.
Study Characteristics
| Author, Date | Journal | Funding | Dyad n and Relationship Type |
Caregiver Characteristics |
Patient Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agren, 2010 | Eur J CardiovascNurs | Linköping University; Swedish Institute for Health Sciences; Sweden; Swedish Research Council; Vårdal Foundation |
n=135 100% Spousal |
Age 69±12 75% Female Race not reported |
Age 71±12 25% Female Race not reported |
| Barnes, 2006 | Int J PalliatNurs | UK Department of Health |
n=213 73% Spousal |
70% > 60 years 76% Female Race not reported |
100% > 60 years 36% Female Race not reported |
| Chung, 2009 | J Psychosom Res | NIH/NINR; University of Kentucky |
n=58 100% Spousal |
Age 58±12 Gender not reported Race not reported |
Age 62±13 26% Female 93% White |
| Chung, 2010 | J of CardiovascNurs | University of Kentucky; NIH/NINR |
n=109 79% Spousal |
Age 57±13 75% Female 94% White |
Age 61±12 40% Female Race not reported |
| Hooley, 2005 | Congest Heart Fail | Undergraduate Internal Medicine Research Foundation, Dalhousie University |
n=50 66% Spousal |
Age 61±14 80% Female Race not reported |
Age 72±11 28% Female Race not reported |
| Hwang, 2011 | Am J Crit Care | University of California, San Francisco |
n=76 74% Spousal |
Age 53±16 71% Female 63% White |
Age 54±14 45% Female 66% White |
| Luttik, 2007 | Eur J Heart Fail | Netherlands Heart Foundation |
n=357 100% Spousal |
Age 67±12 75% Female Race not reported |
Age 68±11 25% Female Race not reported |
| Martensson, 2003 | J Heart Lung Transplant | Research Council of Southeastern Sweden; Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation;AHA |
n=48 100% Spousal |
Age 57±10 100% Female 83% White |
Age 61±9 0% Female 77% White |
| Pihl, 2005 | Eur J Heart Fail | Funding source not reported |
n=47 100% Spousal |
Age 75±7 72% Female Race not reported |
Age 78±5 28% Female Race not reported |
| Pressler, 2013 | J CardiovascNurs | Indiana University; NIH/NINR |
n=63 68% Spousal |
Age 60±15 76% Female 84% White |
Age 69±13 46% Female 81% White |
| Rohrbaugh, 2002 | J Fam Psych | NIH |
n=181 100% Spousal |
Age 52±11 Gender not reported 83% White* |
Age 53±10 27% Female 83% White* |
| Rohrbaugh, 2009 | Heart Lung | AHA |
n=60 100% Spousal |
Age 66±11 72% Female Race not reported |
Age 67 ±12 28% Female 85% White |
| Saunders, 2008 | Home Healthc Nurse | Funding source not reported |
n=41 46% Adult child of patient, 46% Spousal |
Age 59±15 85% Female 68% White |
Age 78±10 51% Female 85% White |
| Schwarz, 2003 | Heart Lung | Funding source not reported |
n=128 61.7% Spousal, 27.3% Adult child of patient |
Age 65±15 74% Female 89% White |
Age 77±6 50% Female 89% White |
| Trivedi, 2012 | J CardiovascNurs | VA Puget Sound; Durham VA |
n=23 100% Spousal |
Age not reported 100% Female Race not reported |
Age 66±7 100% Male 61% White |
*
This publication reported race for the whole sample (patients and caregivers together), rather than for patients and caregivers separately
All journal abbreviations per National Library of Medicine; Age reported as Mean±SD; UK: United Kingdom; NIH: National Institutes of Health; NINR: National Institute of Nursing Research; AHA: American Heart Association; VA: Veterans Affairs