A Nurse-Led Family Support Intervention for Families Living With Cancer: An Experience-Based Co-Design Study.

Purposive sampling may have selected people who had more positive experiences of care; participants were contacted through nurses and a nursing director. The study included 22 stakeholders, including 8 patients with cancer, 7 family members and 7 nurses, so the views cannot represent all cancer families. Two patients dropped out after the initial interviews because their health worsened, which may have limited later perspectives. The intervention was co-designed but not evaluated; no outcomes such as family distress, functioning or quality of life were measured. The work took place in one private university hospital in northern Spain and the intervention is specific to that cultural and service context.

The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The study was funded by Gobierno de Navarra, Banco Santander, Colegio Oficial de Enfermeras de Navarra, Asociación de Amigos de la Universidad de Navarra and Consejo General de Enfermería de España.

Do not treat Family CARE-ON as proven to reduce family distress or improve cancer outcomes. The paper co-designed the intervention from stakeholder views and reports no trial or outcome data showing benefit.