BMJ Open. 2025 Dec 17;15(12):e110591. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110591.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: Most people who require palliative care reside in low- and middle-income countries, particularly those living in areas affected by geopolitical conflict such as Palestine. Given the potential impact of conflicts on the palliative care knowledge of healthcare providers, it is crucial to assess how it is affected by the recent political instability occurring in the area. This study aimed to assess the overall and domain-specific palliative knowledge among physicians and nurses and evaluate the factors associated with palliative care knowledge.DESIGN: Cross-sectional multicentre study.SETTING: The study sample was recruited from eight hospitals in two…
Origen: Assessment of palliative care knowledge among hospital physicians and nurses in conflict-affected, resource-limited settings: a multicentre cross-sectional study – PubMed

Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2025 Nov 7;17(1):e1-e12. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.5095.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Patients with advanced non-malignant diseases experience pain, dyspnoea and fatigue, requiring a rehabilitation approach within palliative care.AIM: To identify components of non-pharmacological interventions for symptom self-management for patients with non-malignant chronic disease.METHOD: This scoping review identifies: (1) systematic reviews of symptom self-management interventions for breathlessness, pain and fatigue in chronic lung, heart, renal and liver disease; (2) primary studies in low- and middle-income countries to identify intervention components, contextual factors, facilitators and barriers to symptom self-management. Six databases were searched, records exported to Rayyan and deduplicated. Following screening…
Origen: Non-pharmacological symptom self-management in non-malignant chronic disease: A scoping review – PubMed

Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2025 Nov 24;17(1):e1-e4. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.5138.ABSTRACTCurrently less than 2% of Kenyans with severe symptoms receive palliative care (PC). Moreover, PC services are concentrated in urban settings and most rural healthcare providers have limited PC expertise. Project ECHO® Palliative Care for Western Kenya was developed as part of a hub-and-spoke model for improving primary PC in rural Kenya. The programme is based at Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, a public, tertiary care facility with a catchment of 25 million Kenyans, the majority of whom live in rural settings. Self-reported assessments by primary…
Origen: Promoting primary palliative care in Western Kenya using Project ECHO® – PubMed

Int J Palliat Nurs. 2025 Dec 2;31(12):598-608. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2024.0054.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Palliative care is a care service that positively supports the quality of life of patients with a life-threatening disease and their relatives. Lack of knowledge and the associated negative perception of individuals in this respect may be an obstacle for patients and their relatives to request and receive this service.AIM: This study aims to determine the knowledge and opinions about palliative care of patients’ relatives who apply to palliative care centers and request palliative care services.METHOD: This study, which has a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and relational design, uses a questionnaire aimed…
Origen: Evaluation of the opinions of relatives of patients receiving palliative care – PubMed

Int J Palliat Nurs. 2025 Dec 2;31(12):609-622. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2024.0077.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Marie Curie is the largest charitable provider of palliative and end-of-life care in the UK. This paper describes a 2-year project to co-design a career development and progression framework for their specialist palliative and end-of-life care workforce.AIMS: To illustrate how a collaborative systematic approach to complex co-design supports large scale workforce transformation.METHODS: A mixed-methods participatory action research design was used incorporating principles of co-design, appreciative inquiry and practice development.FINDING: Nine core workforce capabilities were identified as being critical to the delivery of person centered safe and effective palliative and end-of-life care…
Origen: Co-designing a workforce career progression and development framework with Marie Curie UK – PubMed