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Published in final edited form as: J Psychosoc Oncol Res Pract. 2021 Oct 25;3(4):e062. doi: 10.1097/or9.0000000000000062

Table 5.

Illustrative quotes for the category “The Caregiving Team and Social Support” and associated subcategories.

Subcategory	Illustrative quotes
Emotional support	And then also she’s a support system for me, just to talk about what’s going on and she’s an outside person that I can talk to that’s not like kinda in the mix of it, to where I’m not venting to the wrong person. (35–39 year old female caring for parent) And then like the best like person to talk to, I think, was probably my brother because you know I think well, I could talk to my parents about it and my grandparents, whatever, and it was always comforting and couldn’t have done without them, but probably the actually the most help I ever got was from my brother. (18–24 year old male caring for sibling) My sister and I have two really good cousins that we talk to and we hang out with. (30–34 year old female caring for sibling)
Instrumental support	We’ve had financial support as well, which is huge, we’ve needed that. (25–29 year old female caring for spouse/partner) He helps out you now, with the kids, because if I have to go to a doctor appointment for my mom. He’ll leave and take on the kids. (35–39 year old female caring for parent) Like hey do you, sometimes they would bring dinner if I didn’t have time to cook dinner if I didn’t have time to cook dinner, or take us out to dinner. Like don’t cook. Don’t worry about it. C’mon let’s go gets come food. (30–34 year old female caring for sibling)

Subcategory

Illustrative quotes

Emotional support

And then also she’s a support system for me, just to talk about what’s going on and she’s an outside person that I can talk to that’s not like kinda in the mix of it, to where I’m not venting to the wrong person. (35–39 year old female caring for parent)
And then like the best like person to talk to, I think, was probably my brother because you know I think well, I could talk to my parents about it and my grandparents, whatever, and it was always comforting and couldn’t have done without them, but probably the actually the most help I ever got was from my brother. (18–24 year old male caring for sibling)
My sister and I have two really good cousins that we talk to and we hang out with. (30–34 year old female caring for sibling)

Instrumental support

We’ve had financial support as well, which is huge, we’ve needed that. (25–29 year old female caring for spouse/partner)
He helps out you now, with the kids, because if I have to go to a doctor appointment for my mom. He’ll leave and take on the kids. (35–39 year old female caring for parent)
Like hey do you, sometimes they would bring dinner if I didn’t have time to cook dinner if I didn’t have time to cook dinner, or take us out to dinner. Like don’t cook. Don’t worry about it. C’mon let’s go gets come food. (30–34 year old female caring for sibling)