A translational approach to design effective intervention tools for informal caregivers of dependent cancer patients.

OBJECTIVES: Caregivers of terminal patients often report a higher prevalence of unmet needs than cancer survivors. However, very few interventions have been carried out to support caregivers of patients in advanced stages, and, in most cases, they have not been rigorously designed and evaluated. The ultimate aim of this research was to obtain specific information about the sociodemographic characteristics, the different types of care provided, the symptoms due to burdens, the impact of caring on the quality of life, and the unmet needs of informal caregivers of dependent patients with cancer. This is to design effective intervention programs that can be implemented from the hospital setting…

The role of the lexical status and the frequency of the prime on the unrelated condition using the technique of the masking of the prime.

Associative facilitation for words, but not for pseudowords with masked presentations of the prime.