![]() The website also holds an online peer-support discussion forum. The intervention is presented through videos and informative texts. The topics cover: medical issues, symptoms and symptom relief communication within the couple, how to spend the time before death, being a caregiver, planning for the moment of death and considerations of the future. The intervention which aims to increase preparedness for caregiving and death is grounded in theory, research and clinical experience. Inclusion criteria are being a family caregiver of a patient with severe illness and in need of a palliative care approach. ![]() The study adheres to the SPIRIT-guidelines (Supplementary 1), uses a pre-post design and include a web-based intervention. Feelings of being prepared are associated with positive aspects and regarded protective against negative health consequences. ![]() Preparing to care for a severely ill family members also means becoming aware of death. Family caregivers of patients with severe illness and in need for a palliative care approach, face numerous challenges and report having insufficient preparedness for the caregiver role as well as a need for information and psychosocial support. ![]()
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