Carer Perspectives About the Acceptability and Usability of the TRANSITION Tool to Support Preparation for Older Adult Care Transitions: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Transitional care of older adults can be highly stressful for informal carers (carers) particularly when they are not involved in preparation and planning with health practitioners. This study aimed to ascertain carer perspectives about the potential acceptability and usability of a tool entitled the TRANSITION tool to support preparation and planning for the transition of an older adult from hospital to home.

Design: Exploratory qualitative.

Double-duty caregivers enduring COVID-19 pandemic to endemic: "It's just wearing me down".

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably strained health care providers and family caregivers. Double-duty caregivers give unpaid care at home and are employed as care providers. This sequential mixed-method study, a survey followed by qualitative interviews, aimed to comprehensively understand the experiences of these Canadian double-duty caregivers amidst the pandemic and the transition to the endemic phase.

Informal carer support needs, facilitators and barriers in transitional care for older adults from hospital to home: A scoping review.

Aim: To synthesise evidence about informal carers' (carers) experience of their support needs, facilitators and barriers regarding transitional care of older adults with multimorbidity.

Background: Carers provide crucial support for older adults during care transitions. Although health practitioners are well positioned to support carers, system factors including limited healthcare resources can compromise the quality of care transitions.

Informal carers' support needs, facilitators and barriers in the transitional care of older adults: A qualitative study.

Introduction: Inclusion of informal carers in transitional care is challenging because of fast throughput and service fragmentation. This study aimed to understand informal carers' needs during the care transitions of older adults from inpatient care to the community.

Methods: A qualitative exploratory design was used with mixed-methods data collection.

Remote Moderator and Observer Experiences and Decision-making During Usability Testing of a Web-Based Empathy Training Portal: Content Analysis.

Background: COVID-19 restrictions severely curtailed empirical endeavors that involved in-person interaction, such as usability testing sessions for technology development. Researchers and developers found themselves using web-based moderation for usability testing. Skilled remote moderators and observers are fundamental in this approach.

Connecting Through Conversation: A Novel Video-Feedback Intervention to Enhance Long-Term Care Aides' Person-Centred Dementia Communication.

Objective: To pilot test a novel communication intervention incorporating a video-feedback component on the person-centred dementia communication skills of long-term care aides.

Methods: Effectiveness was assessed using a single group pre-test/post-test design. 11 care aide-resident dyads participated in the study.

Expanding the conversation: A Person-centred Communication Enhancement Model.

The intricacy and impact of human communication has long captured the attention of philosophers, scholars and practitioners. Within the realm of care and service provision, efforts to maximize outcomes through optimal person-provider communication have drawn research and clinical focus to this area for several decades. With the dawning of the person-centred care movement within healthcare, and in particular long-term care home and dementia care settings, improvement in care providers' use of person-centred communication strategies and enhancement of relationships between residents, their families and care providers are desired outcomes.

Using the Donabedian framework to examine transitional care for cardiac patients and family caregivers.

Purpose: This study aims to examine how health-care managers in acute care and post-acute care facilities support and plan to improve transitional care for cardiac patients and their family caregivers, to better manage care in the home.

Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative descriptive approach, guided by appreciative inquiry was used in this study. A purposive sample of 16 participants were engaged in the study.

Mindfulness-based arts interventions for cancer care: A systematic review of the effects on wellbeing and fatigue.

Objective: Upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, life irrevocably changes and complex experiences of emotional distress often occur. There is a growing interest in mindfulness-based arts interventions (MBAIs) to ameliorate the distress many patients experience. Our review objective was to synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of MBAIs on psychological wellbeing and fatigue.

Perceptions of an evidence-based empathy mobile app in post-secondary education.

Cognitive empathy (also known as perspective-taking) is an important, teachable, skill. As part of a knowledge translation project, we identified a) interest in an evidence-based cognitive empathy mobile app and b) which faculties believe that cognitive empathy is important for their profession. Students ( = 638) and instructors/professors ( = 38) completed a university-wide survey.

Home care clients: a research protocol for studying their pathways.

Background: Enhancing non-clinical home care supports and services for older adults to live well is a strategic priority in developed countries, including Canada. Underpinning these supports and services are structures of care that are reflected in home care policies, programs and practices within jurisdictions. These approaches to care exist at multiple levels and inform interactions, perceptions, and care assessment, planning and provision, ultimately shaping the supports that are delivered.

Video feedback: A novel application to enhance person-centred dementia communication.

Aim: A discussion of the use of video feedback as an effective and feasible method to promote person-centred communication approaches within dementia care and long-term care.

Background: Effective strategies to integrate person-centred approaches into health care settings have attracted global attention and research in the past two decades. Video feedback has emerged as technique to enhance reflective learning and person-centred practice change in some care settings; however, it has not been tested in the context of person-centred dementia communication in long-term care.

Are perspective-taking outcomes always positive? Challenges and mitigation strategies.

Background: Engaging in perspective-taking often has positive outcomes for both healthcare providers and patients. Perspective-taking by healthcare providers has been linked to increased patient satisfaction and compliance, patients' positive perceptions of healthcare providers' interpersonal skills, and a reduction in judgmental attitudes toward individuals who engage in health-risk behaviors. The positive outcomes that are associated with perspective-taking are often highlighted in the literature.

Canadian Hospital and Home Visiting Nurses' Attitudes Toward Families in Transitional Care: A Descriptive Comparative Study.

Despite the key role that hospital and home care nurses have in supporting family carers in transitional care, there is limited comparative information on their attitudes toward supporting family carers during care transitions. As part of a larger research project, we conducted a descriptive comparative study using a cross-sectional survey. Canadian nurses (105 hospital, 34 home visiting) completed a demographic questionnaire and the Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA) measurement tool.

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based arts interventions on psychological wellbeing and fatigue in adults with a physical illness: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this review is to synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based arts interventions on psychological wellbeing and fatigue in adults with a physical illness.

: A randomized, controlled pilot study to promote nursing student perspective-taking on carers' health risk behaviors.

Background: Lifestyle counseling is described as a "major breakthrough" in the control of chronic diseases. Counseling can be challenging to nurses due their lack of motivation to counsel, hesitancy to appear non-judgmental, lack of empathy, and lack of time. Nurses voice their need for more training in counseling communication skills.

Shared Attributes of Responsibility and Emotion in Patients With Lung Cancer and Family Caregivers .

Objectives: To compare the attributions and emotions held by patients with lung cancer (affected individuals) and family caregivers in their management of the disease. 
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Sample & Setting: A secondary data analysis of 304 affected individuals and 304 family caregivers.

The Role of Nurse Leaders in Advancing Carer Communication Needs across Transitions of Care: A Call to Action.

This paper focuses on the central role of senior nurse leaders in advancing organizational resources and support for communication between healthcare providers and carers that influences patient and carer outcomes during the transition from hospital to the community. A Think Tank (Lobchuk 2012) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) gathered interdisciplinary and intersectoral stakeholders from local, national and international levels to develop a Family Carer Communication Research Collaboration. Workshop stakeholders addressed critical challenges in meeting communication needs of carers as partners with clinicians in promoting safe care for the elderly, chronically or seriously ill or disabled individuals in the community.

Examining Associations of Functional Deficits and Mood States With Empathic Responses of Stroke Family Caregivers.

Background: Stroke is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses worldwide. Family caregivers can make a significant contribution toward patients' recovery. However, the patient's functional deficits and the caregiver's mood states can impact the caregiver's motivation to engage in empathic responses toward patients.

Development of a novel empathy-related video-feedback intervention to improve empathic accuracy of nursing students: A pilot study.

Background: Stressed family carers engage in health-risk behaviours that can lead to chronic illness. Innovative strategies are required to bolster empathic dialogue skills that impact nursing student confidence and sensitivity in meeting carers' wellness needs.

Purpose: To report on the development and evaluation of a promising empathy-related video-feedback intervention and its impact on student empathic accuracy on carer health risk behaviours.

Examining the Relationship Between Family Caregivers' Emotional States and Ability to Empathize with Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study.

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common nontraumatic cause of disability affecting young adults in Canada. Caregivers of patients with MS are highly psychologically burdened. Empathy and helping behaviors are hallmarks of quality care, but when they are challenged, suboptimal patient care can result.

Parental Decision Making Regarding the Disclosure or Nondisclosure of a Mutation-Positive BRCA1/2 Test Result to Minors.

Purpose/objectives: To gain insight into parental decision making regarding the disclosure or nondisclosure of a mutation-positive BRCA1/2 test result to minors.
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Research Approach: A qualitative study based on Heidegger hermeneutic phenomenology was undertaken to explore the lived experience of parental decision making regarding high-risk BRCA1/2 disclosure.