The Experience of Transition for a Daughter Caregiver of a Stroke Survivor

Informal primary carers of stroke survivors living at home–challenges, satisfactions and coping: A systematic review of qualitative studies

“…Clearly this may be a reflection of the quality of the write-up, rather than the research itself. There were no clear patterns relating quality ratings with publication date or country of origin, although two studies [17,18] published in the 1990s had the lowest quality cores (5/11).…”

“…Four only used telephone interviews [13,[24][25][26]. The majority of studies (12 out of 17) opted for single interviews with four others using repeat interviews [18][19][20]23]. Interviews were variously described simply as 'interviews', 'semi-structured', 'unstructured' and 'in-depth' interviews.…”

“…Some studies specified a minimum time caring, for example [17,21,23]. Research was often focused on the first year or less (post-stroke or from discharge) with eight of the 17 studies concentrating on this time period [13,15,[18][19][20]22,26,28]. Some explicitly focused on the first few months post-stroke [14,[18][19][20]26].…”

“…The most frequent method described time since stroke [15][16][17][18][19]21,22,27]. Others used time since caring role commenced [14,23,29] or time since discharge from inpatient services [13,20,26,28].…”

“…The aims of the studies identified for the review tended to either emphasize the experiences, perspectives and expectations of caring [15,16,18,21,22,[26][27][28][29] or to stress carers' problems, needs and concerns [13,14,17,19,20,25]. The aims of one study covered both these [23] although the analysis focused on needs.…”