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Perceptions of burden of caregiving by informal caregivers of cancer patients attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria

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Akpan-Idiok, Paulina Ackley, Anarado, Agnes Nonye·2014·Pan African Medical Journal
DOI 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.159.2995PMC PMC4236844
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INTRODUCTION: Cancer care is devastating to families. This research studied the informal caregivers' perceptions of burden of caregiving to cancer patients attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar. METHODS: The research adopted a cross-sectioned descriptive design and 210 caregivers providing care to advanced cancer patients were purposively selected. Data were collected using a researcher developed questionnaire and standardized Zarit Burden Interview scale (ZBIS). Data collected were analysed using descriptive and chi-square statistics with the help of SPSS 18.0 and PAS 19.0 softwares. RESULTS: The results indicated that the caregivers were in their youthful and active economic age, dominated by females, Christians, spouses, partners and parents. The burden levels experienced by the caregivers were as follows: severe (46.2%), moderate (36.2%) and trivial of no burden (17.6%). The forms of burden experienced were physical (43.4%), psychological (43.3%), financial (41.1%) and social (46.7%), quite frequently and nearly always. Psychological and social forms of burden had the highest weighted score of 228 in terms of magnitude of burden. The result further showed that there was a significant (P = 0.001) and inverse association between caregivers' burden and the care receivers' functional ability. The level of burden also increased significantly (P = 0.000) with the duration of care, while there was also a significant (P = 0.01) relationship between caregivers' experience of burden and their desire to continue caregiving. CONCLUSION: Caregiving role can be enhanced by provision of interventions such as formal education programme on cancer caregiving, oncology, home services along side with transmural care.

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  • Caring for another person generates a complex scenario of suffering, tension, anxiety, fear, and pain, with changes in social interaction and physical or psychological well-being, which can alter the caregiver's perception of burden.

    “Sin embargo, la acción de cuidar a otro genera un escenario complejo, de sufrimiento, tensión, ansiedad, temor y dolor, con cambios relacionados con su interacción social y bienestar físico o psicológico, lo que puede alterar la percepción de sobrecarga de este cuidador por el servicio que presta (7-9).”

    From Factores relacionados con sobrecarga del cuidador informal de pacientes con cáncer avanzado (2024) · cites this paper as [7]

    The Introduction describes caregivers’ burden as distress and pain involving social, physical, and emotional demands; the Discussion also identifies physical, psychological, and social burden. However, the paper concerns informal caregivers of advanced cancer patients, not caregiving for anyone generally, and the passages do not specifically identify anxiety or fear. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Prior studies have reported that caregiver age is related to caregiver burden.

    “Estudios han reportado que la edad (11-14), el nivel educativo (12), el tiempo como cuidador (12), su calidad de vida (15), el ser el único responsable de cuidar (14) y la presencia de depresión (13, 16) se relacionaron con sobrecarga en el cuidador.”

    From Factores relacionados con sobrecarga del cuidador informal de pacientes con cáncer avanzado (2024) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Results section, under “Socio-economic characteristics of caregivers” (page unavailable), reports caregivers’ ages but does not relate age to burden. The Abstract Results and Discussion identify associations with care recipients’ functional ability and duration of care, not caregiver age. Searches for age–burden relationships found no passage establishing the claimed association. (LLM, conf=0.74)

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Authors
Akpan-Idiok, P. A., & Anarado, A. N.
Venue
Pan African Medical Journal
Publisher
Pan African Medical Journal
Published
2014
Volume
18
Pages
159-159
ISSN
1937-8688 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.11604/pamj.2014.18.159.2995
PMC
PMC4236844
OpenAlex
W1981570262
Cited by
76
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FWCI
9.35
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Nursing care and research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
Keywords
caregiver burden, informal caregivers, cancer patients, advanced cancer, Zarit Burden Interview, psychological burden, social burden, financial burden, physical burden, caregiving duration, family caregivers
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Christianity, Cross-Sectional Studies, Emotions, Family, Female, Health Services Needs and Demand, Home Nursing, Hospitals, University, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Islam, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Nigeria, Socioeconomic Factors, Stress, Psychological, Caregivers, Cost of Illness, Friends, Young Adult

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