Devotion to Family: Coping Strategy to Reduce Burden of Caregiving Stroke Patients.

All 30 caregivers came from one district in Central Java, Indonesia, and they explain their coping through religious belief, fate and family duty, so the themes may not transfer to families elsewhere. The caregivers were all still caring when they were interviewed, at least six months in, so the study reports only what people who stayed in the role said. It says nothing about families who gave up or never took the role on. Everyone included was an unpaid family member who was not a health worker, so this tells you nothing about paid care workers. The paper reports the days of caregiving from an observer living in the same house or next door rather than from the caregiver, and only at one point in time, so nothing here shows whether any of it changed. The age and relationship figures reported for the caregivers do not account for all 30 participants.

The supplied text contains no funding statement and no declaration of competing interests. The authors do not say who paid for the work. Ethical approval was reported from the Medical and Health Research Ethics Committee at RSUD Dr. Moewardi, Surakarta, Indonesia.

Do not read this as evidence that devotion reduces caregiver burden. Nothing was measured here: there was no burden score, no comparison group and no before-and-after. It reports what 30 caregivers in one Indonesian district said about how they got through the day, and a theme in an interview is not a treatment.