The effect of anxiety and spiritual well-being on the care burden of caregivers of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Akkuş, Yeliz; Karacan, Yasemin; Ünlü, Kübra; Deniz, Muhammed; Parlak, Ayşegül

doi:10.1007/s00520-021-06611-0

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“…Our results suggested that the caregiver burden decreased with an increase in the education level, which was consistent with the findings from the studies by Akkuş et al (33) and Eskin et al (34) on caregivers of patients with cancer. A higher education level is associated with an increased awareness about the disease and with the required measures adopted for delivering proper care, thus reducing the caregiver burden.…”

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The Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Caregiver Burden in Informal Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

Barghbani

Salehi

et al. 2023

Jundishapur J Chronic Dis Care

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Background: Irrational health anxiety increases due to insufficient information about COVID-19 and misinterpretation of allergy symptoms in favor of COVID-19. The disease increases the caregiver burden in informal caregivers and, subsequently, causes physical and mental disorders for them and negatively affects the provision of care for patients. Objectives: This study aimed to examine the relationship between health anxiety and caregiver burden in informal caregivers of patients with COVID-19. Methods: In this cross-sectional and correlational study, the convenient sampling method was adopted to select 340 informal caregivers of patients with COVID-19 who were discharged during the last three weeks of hospitalization in Vasei Hospital of Sabzevar City, Iran, in 2021. To collect the required data, the online links of the demographic information questionnaire, Salkoviskis's short health anxiety inventory (SHAI), and Novak and Guest's Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) were sent to the subjects through messengers. The data were analyzed using SPSS 22 as well as descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: According to the results, the mean caregiver burden score in informal caregivers of patients with COVID-19 was 69.72 ± 14.91, and the mean health anxiety score was 16.22 ± 8.24. Pearson's test results were indicative of a significant relationship between caregiver burden and health anxiety (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Since a significant relationship was found between health anxiety and caregiver burden in informal caregivers of patients with COVID-19 in this study, it was argued that the health of informal caregivers was an important health issue certainly deserving serious attention of the health service providers.

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confidence: 93%

The Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Caregiver Burden in Informal Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

Barghbani

Salehi

et al. 2023

Jundishapur J Chronic Dis Care

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“…SWB is an important factor in coping with the difficulties that caregivers experience during the care of patients with cancer. SWB is a concept that includes both religion and spirituality (Akkuş et al, 2022 ). More religion or spirituality was associated with lower depressive symptoms and less personality disorder (Power & McKinney, 2014 ), less post-traumatic stress and perceived stress (Arévalo et al, 2008 ) also this may affect caregiver burden.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spiritual Well-Being and Care Burden in Caregivers of Patients with Breast Cancer in Turkey

Polat

Kiyak

2022

J Relig Health

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This research was carried out to identify the relationship between the spiritual well-being and caregiver burden in caregivers of patients with breast cancer. The study was conducted with family caregivers of patients with breast cancer who presented to the oncology clinic of a university hospital for treatment. The study sample included a total of 138 family caregivers who met the criteria for participation and agreed to participate in the study. The data were collected using a participant information form, caregiver burden scale and three-dimensional spiritual well-being scale. The caregivers have a moderate level of caregiver burden and their spiritual well-being was quite high. The caregiver burden of female caregivers was found to be significantly higher than that of male caregivers ( p = 0.040). There is a negatively significant relationship between caregiver burden and spiritual well-being ( p = 0.000, r = − 0.357). The caregiver burden is significantly higher among the 24-h caregivers compared to that among the 3-h and 4–6-h caregivers ( p = 0.003). The spiritual well-being of the caregivers who provide care between 3 h and 4–6 h a day was significantly higher than that of those who provide 24-h care ( p = 0.001). Increasing spiritual well-being may help to reduce caregiver burden in caregivers of those with breast cancer.

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“…It was observed in our study that caregivers of cancer patients intensely felt the fear of infecting themselves and infecting their patients with the Covid-19 virus. In the previous studies, caregivers reported that they experienced the fear of infection because they thought that the Covid-19 virus would affect the treatment processes of cancer patients [16,17]. Caregivers further told that they feared that their patients would be infected with the virus more easily because the treatments they received suppressed the immune system [4].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Difficulties the Caregivers of Cancer Patients Experience in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Yakar

Oğuz

KARAKAS

et al. 2021

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Purpose This is a qualitative study using interpretive phenomenological analysis to determine the difficulties experienced by caregivers of cancer patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods Fourteen cancer patients were interviewed between 20 December 2020 and 20 January 2021 using maximum diversity sampling. The data were collected using semi-structured interview forms, one-on-one interviews, and online interview technique. Results The experiences of caregivers of cancer patients regarding the Covid 19 pandemic were presented under four themes, namely emotional problems, economic problems, neglect of health, and behavioural responses associated with Covid 19”. Conclusions It was found that caregivers of cancer patients were emotionally affected, faced economic difficulties, neglected their own health, and developed behavioural responses to the risk of Covid-19 during the pandemic.

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The effect of anxiety and spiritual well-being on the care burden of caregivers of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

The Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Caregiver Burden in Informal Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

The Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Caregiver Burden in Informal Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

Spiritual Well-Being and Care Burden in Caregivers of Patients with Breast Cancer in Turkey

The Difficulties the Caregivers of Cancer Patients Experience in the Covid-19 Pandemic

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