Other Side of Breast Cancer: Factors Associated with Caregiver Burden

Abstract

Primary caregivers need to be financially supported by the relevant organizations. Care skills training and providing palliative care seem helpful in reducing the pain and the burden of family caregivers for patients with breast cancer.

Are Disagreements in Caregiver and Patient Assessment of Patient Health Associated with Increased Caregiver Burden in Caregivers of Older Adults with Cancer?

“…Caregiver burden is a subjective feeling of stress that occurs when the demands of caregiving overwhelm caregiver resources to cope with those demands [2,3]. Patient factors (such as advanced cancer stage [4], health status [5], increased symptom burden, and decreased quality of life [QOL] [6][7][8]), caregiver factors (such as female gender [6,7,[9][10][11], age [5,10,[12][13][14], comorbidity [5], relationship to patient [15], education [14], and employment status [10]), and caregiving characteristics (such as increased duration of caregiving [7] and more help required by the patient [6,10,14]) are associated with increased caregiver burden. This information is typically obtained from patients or their caregivers.…”

Family Process with Breast Cancer Patient in Indonesia

“…The patient's activity ability does indeed decrease during the disease process and treatment but still important to 'normalize' the patient to make sure they feel 'alive' and useful to others (Walshe et al, 2017). It certainly decreased the auxiliary load for ADL activity which is on the average increase in line with the improvement of conditions during the treatment process of the disease (Vahidi et al, 2016). Treatment time tends to be long since the diagnosis of disease has a positive correlation with the social burden and family life (Rha, Park, Song, Lee, & Lee, 2015).…”

“…Factors that affected the burden condition was the available resources such as daily activities competences, education level, gender, and financial status by the caregiver (Vahidi et al, 2016). This study found that level of education of participants was a range of elementary-senior high school level and equal, the condition of economic limitations and changes in daily activities experienced by all participants whose all male.…”

“…Although there are also other factors such as residence distance were far away from health care facilities, marital status and the presence of children to be cared for. The financial problem tends to be the main burden of cancer patients (Vahidi et al, 2016), in line with Kaplan, Madden, Mijanovich, and Purcaro (2013) that explained of stressor in weak economic community group which one of them was overcome with helped by the coadministered funds between government and private parties (Moffat, Noble & White, 2012). The conditions become problem associated with early treatment for breast cancer patients within the family that can lead to the quality of life of patients and caregiver (family).…”

“…The other conditions of difficulty in working were more complicated problem with increased financial needs in accompanying cancer patients ultimately decrease the ability of a caregiver in full-time work (Vahidi et al, 2016). A time-consuming maintenance burden becomes a major problem that occurs in many caregivers (Govina et al, 2014).…”