Psychosocial Burden and Supportive Care Needs of Informal Caregivers in Specialist Palliative Care: Protocol of a Multicenter Longitudinal Cohort Study to Identify Trajectories and Validate the Multidimensional Screening Tool CAREPAL-8

Clara Haufschild   ¹ , MSc ;   Karin Oechsle   ¹ , Prof Dr med ;   Antonia Zapf   ² , Prof Dr rer nat ;   Anne Daubmann   ² , MSc ;   Philipp Weber   ² , MSc ;   Holger Schulz   ^{3 *} , Prof Dr phil ;   Anneke Ullrich   ^{1 *} , MSc

¹ Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, Hematology and BMT, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

² Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

³ Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

*these authors contributed equally