Thirteen percent of caregivers met criteria for a psychiatric disorder; 25% accessed treatment for mental health concerns since the patient's cancer diagnosis.
Later, the subject loses the ability to participate meaningfully and the caregiver becomes the sole decisionmaker.
The significance tests denote differences between caregivers and non-caregivers.
However, the distribution of gesture+speech combinations differed for caregiver and child.
The caregivers received no financial compensation for their participation.
This does not necessarily prove to be the case, at least not to the extent that parents and other caregivers assume.
These measures reflect the rate of caregiver utterances by style during each joint engagement state.
Similarly, attempts to suppress pain expression can be understood as a function of the relationship between patient and caregiver.