ArticleHeliyon2023
Factors influencing cancer patients' caregivers' burden and quality of life: An integrative review.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Role of Social Support in the Experience of Informal Caregivers of Cancer Patients: An Umbrella Review.Psycho-oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of web-based interventions on cancer caregivers' burden and quality of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Pooled it
- Family Resilience in Adult Oncology: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Oncology nursing forum · 2025Pooled it
- Cancer risk perception among family members of patients with digestive tract cancer and associated patient- and family member-related factors: A cross-sectional study of 414 patient-family member pairs.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2026Article
- Association Between Health-Related Quality of Life In Patients with Colorectal Cancer and Their Informal Caregivers.Advances in therapy · 2026Article
- Acceptability of My Ten: a physical activity intervention for family caregivers of people with advanced cancer.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Resilience as an indirect pathway linking depressive symptoms and quality of life among family caregivers of hospitalized lung cancer patients in Northern Vietnam.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
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- Burden of family caregivers of cancer patients: a cross-sectional study in a national referral oncology unit in Togo".BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Impact of burden of care upon psychological wellbeing and quality of life among family caregivers for cancer patients.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- Perceived stress, distress, burden, and caregiving preparedness in family caregivers of patients with hematologic malignancies during the first months of treatment.Journal of psychosocial oncology · 2026Article
- Exploring the predictive capacity of smartphone-based digital phenotyping to monitor pain and physical quality of life in advanced cancer patients, family caregivers, and dyads.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How a physical exercise program performed by patients may impact caregiver burden in cancer: a qualitative study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Factors That Affect the Quality of Life of Caregiving Nursing Technicians of Psychiatric Patients.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Caregiver burden in family caregivers of individuals with cancer in Iran: an analytical cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Psychological Symptom Risks in Spouses of Cancer Patients and Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Counselling: A Descriptive and Correlational Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
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- Effects of virtual counseling on the care burden and quality of life of family caregivers for leukemia patients: a randomized controlled trial study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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Abstract
This integrative review assessed the factors influencing cancer patients' caregivers' burden and quality of life (QoL). Relevant studies were retrieved from five electronic databases and screened. After systematic screening by title, abstract, and full text, the review included 15 studies published between 2000 and 2022 and used an interpretive thematic synthesis design for analysis. Age (older), sex (male), high work requirements, relationships with patients, low-income levels, high subjective stress, patient dependency level, and trait anxiety were significantly associated with higher caregiver burden. Factors associated with the low QoL of caregivers were age (less than 35 years), caregiving role (more responsibility), relationship with patients (first-degree relative), low income, living in the same home with the patient, and higher social and family responsibilities. A moderate negative correlation (n = 6) was identified between the sum of the QoL scores and the burden. Future research should be integrated into identifying appropriate means to support caregivers of patients with chronic diseases, including cancer by segregating interventions to target specific caregiver populations.
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