Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40260491›Full record

ArticlePalliative & supportive care2025

The impact of caregiver burden and associated factors on trait anger levels and anger expression styles in family caregivers of palliative care patients.

Yasemin Çekiç, Sema Üstündağ, Yasemin Kurtoğlu, Gamze Ünver

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Palliative & supportive care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yasemin ÇekiçPsychiatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ankara University, Ankara, Türkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9237-440X
Sema ÜstündağDepartment of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kütahya Health Sciences University, Kütahya, Türkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-1756
Yasemin KurtoğluDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kütahya Health Sciences University, Kütahya, Türkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8293-8590
Gamze ÜnverDepartment of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kütahya Health Sciences University, Kütahya, Türkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2033-1926

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis study aimed to examine the impact of perceived caregiver burden and associated factors on the anger levels and anger expression styles of family caregivers for patients receiving palliative care at home.

methodsThis cross-sectional and exploratory correlational type study was conducted with 343 family caregivers. Data were collected face-to-face between March and September 2022 using a Caregiver and Care Recipient Information Form, the Burden Interview, and the Trait Anger and Anger Expression Scale.

resultsThere was a significant from very weak to weak correlation between the caregiver burden scores and trait anger, anger-in, anger-out, and anger control scores. The caregiver burden increased trait anger, anger-in, and anger-out while decreasing anger control. The caregiver burden, daily caregiving hours, presence of another dependent at home, presence of a separate room for the care recipient, income level, chronic illness of caregiver, duration of caregiving per month, and care recipient gender explained 17.2% of the total variation in anger control scores. SIGNIFICANCE OF

resultsThe caregiver burden levels and anger expression styles of family caregivers vary depending on the characteristics of both the caregiver and the care recipient. Family members may experience an increase in perceived caregiver burden, which can lead to elevated levels of trait anger, suppression of anger, and reduced anger control. Healthcare professionals should monitor the family caregivers' caregiver burden and anger levels. Family caregivers should be encouraged and given opportunities to express their feelings and thoughts about caregiving. Strategies aimed at reducing the caregiver burden and coping with feelings of anger should be planned for the family members of patients receiving palliative care at home.

Indexed as

AngerCaregiver BurdenCaregiversPalliative CareAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCost of IllnessCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesAngerburdencaregiverspalliative care

Identifiers

PMID40260491
PMCPMC13166305

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.