Abstract
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 palliative
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 life-limiting illness and inform future "precision supportive
care" in hospice and palliative medicine.
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Publication history
Published online: April 29, 2021
Accepted:
April 22,
2021
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