The purpose of this study was to explore family experiences of caring for adolescents and adults living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes in the context of technology-enabled diabetes care. An interpretive qualitative study was conducted with 24 family caregivers recruited through purposive sampling in Indonesia. Individual semi-structured interviews were undertaken from August 2025 to April 2026 and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four interconnected themes were identified: (a) Caregiving Without Boundaries , (b) Living in Continuous Vigilance , (c) Negotiating Care, Control, and Independence , and (d) Searching for Moments of Being Off Duty . Diabetes technologies extended caregiving beyond physical proximity, fostering continuous vigilance, reshaping family relationships, and prompting caregivers to balance protection, autonomy, and well-being while remaining digitally connected. Technology-enabled diabetes care fundamentally reshapes family caregiving as a continuous relational process. Family nursing should support sustainable caregiving by addressing not only technological competence but also caregiving boundaries, family relationships, and caregiver well-being.
Parents of children with chronic illness seek health information from online sources, but little is known about this work in Asian family caregiving and with new generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. To explore how parents seek, evaluate, and integrate digital health information and generative AI into family caregiving, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 English-speaking parents and conducted reflexive thematic analysis. Four themes were developed: (a) navigating online information credibility and responsibility; (b) strategic platform use for distinct informational and emotional needs; (c) online searching as anticipatory and labor-intensive sense-making; and (d) the impacts of and gaps in online searching. Parents strategized, used AI for information and perceived emotional support, and often consulted clinicians and peers. Digital information work is a consequential component of family caregiving. Family nurses should discuss parents’ digital and AI use, guide families to locally relevant resources, and address misinformation and privacy risks.
Cancer creates significant distress to Latinx family dynamics. Research on family interventions has omitted critical aspects that could significantly improve mental health outcomes in this vulnerable population, including the development of interventions with a robust theoretical framework that are simultaneously culturally aligned with deeply rooted Latinx values. This critical review addressed existing psychosocial interventions for families with a cancer patient, their strengths, and limitations. It expanded on three major themes relevant to designing cancer psychosocial interventions for Latinx, while also reviewing nine intervention studies that consider system-family components in intervention design and research, two of them with the additional integration of culture. Key findings were that interventions mostly incorporate some but not all systemic components. Cultural considerations are limited but promising in strengthening interventions. The purpose is to guide the future direction of research and intervention design for family therapy interventions for cancer patients and their families.
