Psychological morbidity and general health among family caregivers during end-of-life cancer care: A retrospective census survey.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Family carers provide vital support for patients towards end-of-life, but caregiving has considerable impact on carers' own health. The scale of this problem is unknown, as previous research has involved unrepresentative samples or failed to fully capture caregiving close to death. AIM:To quantify level of psychological morbidity and general health among a census sample of carers of people with cancer at end-of-life, compared to population reference data. DESIGN:National 4-month post-bereavement postal census survey of family carers of people who died from cancer, retrospectively measuring carers' psychological health (General Health Questionnaire-12) and general health (EuroQoL EQ-Visual Analogue Scale) during the patient's last 3 months of life. PARTICIPANTS:N = 1504 (28.5%) o

SUBMITTER: Grande G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238177 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature