Background: Family caregivers play

Background: Family caregivers play a vital role during the time of illness of a familymember. Family caregivers experience various physical, emotional, psychosocial, andspiritual concerns while caring for a family member with a life-threatening illness, especiallyin a hospice setting. Current literature mainly adds to understanding the physical,psychological, and emotional aspects of family caregiving. Spiritual aspects of familycaregiving such as personal values and the meanings that family caregivers ascribe to theircaregiving roles often remain unaddressed. While caring for a seriously ill family memberreceiving palliative care, family caregivers go through multiple transitions, make newresolutions, adjust to changing roles and expectations, and experience grief and othercomplex caregiving situations where their search for meaning becomes evident. There is anincreasing need to explore such experiences of spirituality among family caregivers tosupport their caregiving actions and practices.