Table 1.

Schedule and contents for the 4-day nurse-led family involvement program.

Day	Duration (Minutes)	Key Aspects of Involvement	Activities
1	15–20	Pretest	-Collecting HADs questionnaire from patients by RAs
	30–40	-Information sharing -Care provision -Psychological care	-Establishing relationship and building trust with the patient and their family caregiver -Encouraging them to share experiences and to express feelings and thoughts related to illness and care needs -Addressing the significant roles of family caregivers along the cancer journey -Providing information about the disease, treatment plans, and care demands of patients to the patient and their family caregivers -Providing family caregivers a booklet on caring for patients with advance HCC -Encouraging family caregivers to engage in care provision of the patients, including personal hygiene care, comfort care
2–4	40–60	-Information sharing -Care decisions -Care provision -Psychological care	-Involving family caregivers during providing health information to the patients and encouraging them to ask questions if there are any -Explaining about patients’ symptoms, treatment, and care plan, and encouraging family caregivers to review about patient’ s problems -Involving family caregivers in conversations with the physicians -Facilitating open discussion among family and listening attentively -Consulting the family physician to initiate a family meeting and share any decisions -Encouraging family caregivers to be involved in care provision for the patients such as bed baths, comfort care -Providing information related to psychological care activities to family caregivers, such as listening, use of touch, being present, using positive words, or relaxation techniques
5	15–20	Post-test	-Collecting HADs questionnaire from patients by Ras