Family Caregiver Burden and Its Correlatesin Surgical Patients of Gastrointestinal Cancer

• Main Authors: Pao-Chu Huang, 黃寶珠
• Other Authors: Chia-Chin Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78985546360015325555

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 95 === The cross-section study was designed to discuss that the burden and related factors of caregivers for patients with gastrointestinal cancer post surgery in certain medical center in Taipei. It included 95 dyads of patents and their caregivers. The data includes of patients’ demographic, pain condition of patients（Belief Pain Inventory Short Form - Taiwan ,BPI-T）, caregiver’s demographics and caregiver’s psychological distress（measured with The Hospital Anxiety and Depression, HADS）, the type of care and caregiver’s sleep（measured with Karolinska Sleep Diary, KSD）, and the caregiver’s burden（measured with the Caregiver Reaction Assessment, CRA）. The methods of analysis included descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation, and stepwise regressions. The result shows that（1）The severity of care burden on the primary caregiver was in the order: disrupted schedual, health problems, financial problems, and lack of family support.（2）The main predictors of disrupted schedual were the anxiety of caregiver, type of care, the sleep of caregiver, and male gender.（3）The main predictors of caregiver’s health problems were caregiver’s anxiety, caregiver’s sleep status and total dose of PCA in the 3rd day.（4）The main predictors of financial problems included income more then expanse before care, income less than expanse after care,the caregiver’s age and depression.（5）The main predictors of lack of family support included the disturbance of pain, and the type of care was in shifts.（6）The factors related to caregiver’s feeling of self esteem included the caregiver’s marriage. The result showed that there are different aspects of caregiver’s burden in caring for cancer patient post surgery; the recommendation is that clinical caregiver supplied the assistance to reduce the burden in order to improve caring quality.