Table 1.

Demography of participants. Participant identification consists of M: male; F: female; P: patient; and I: informal caregiver.

Participant identification	Type of informal caregiver	Diagnosis
FP1	—a	Connective tissue disease
FP2	—	Fatigue syndrome + fibromyalgia
FP3	—	Systemic sclerosis
FP4	—	Mental illness
FP5	—	Irritable bowel syndrome + motility disorder
FP6	—	Parkinson disease
FP7	—	Rheumatic disease
MP1	—	Myocardial infarction
MP2	—	Kidney failure + kidney cancer
MP3	—	Multiple sclerosis
FI1	Mother	Hypersensitivity
FI2	Wife	Thymus neoplasms
FI3	Mother	Down syndrome + heart failure
MI1	Husband	Mental illness
MI2	Husband	Pulmonary fibroses + liver cancer

^aMissing data, as they are not informal caregivers.