Journal
JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages E315-E321Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.04.015
Keywords
Heart Rate Variability; Psychosocial; Biomarker; Palliative Care
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [T32HL125195, R01CA222486, R01CA225629, KL2TR000421]
- CureSearch for Children's Cancer
- St. Baldrick's Foundation
- Seattle Children's Research Institute
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Measuring psychosocial symptoms in hospice and palliative care research is crucial for understanding the patient and caregiver experience. Combining self-reported measures with objective biomarkers like heart rate variability can provide a more nuanced understanding of patients' physiological and perceived well-being.
Measuring psychosocial symptoms in hospice and palliative care research is critical to understanding the patient and caregiver experience. Subjective patient-reported outcome tools have been the primary method for collecting these data in palliative care, and the growing field of biobehavioral research offers new tools that could deepen our understanding of psychosocial symptomatology. Here we describe one psychosocial biomarker, heart rate variability (HRV), and simple techniques for measurement in an adolescent and young adult cancer population that are applicable to pa ilia live care studies. Complementing self-reported measures with objective biomarkers like HRV could facilitate a more nuanced understanding of physiologic and perceived well-being in patients with serious or lift-limning illness and inform future precision supportive care in hospice rend palliative medicine. (C) 2021 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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