Relationship between pressure burden, psychological status and social support in main family caregivers of hepatic cancer patients
10.3760/j.issn.1674-2907.2014.14.002
- VernacularTitle:肝癌患者主要家庭照顾者的心理状态及社会支持与压力负荷的相关性分析
- Author:
Yuan MENG
1
,
2
;
Xiaoxia NIU
;
Moyan XU
;
Huidan CUI
;
Yanlin MA
;
Hongying PI
Author Information
1. 100039 北京，解放军第三0二医院肝纤维化诊疗中心
2. 100853 北京，解放军医学院
- Keywords:
Hepatic cancer;
Main family caregivers;
Psychological status;
Social support;
Pressure burden
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2014;20(14):1617-1620
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the relationship between pressure burden , psychological status and social support in main caregivers of hepatic cancer patients .Methods A total of 106 main family caregivers of hospitalized hepatic cancer patients were recruited in the study .The general data questionnaire , Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), Caregiver Strain Index (CSI), and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) were used in the investigation .Results The factors of main family caregivers of hepatic cancer patients on somatization (SOM), Obsessive-Compulsive (O-C), depression (DEP), and anxiety (ANX) were significantly higher than the norm of Jiangsu(χ2 =8.306,P<0.01).The differences were significant (t=-2.844,-2.744,-3.587, respectively;P<0.05).The total score of SCI was (8.23 ±2.69), within which 81.1%caregivers had a score≥7.Relationship between pressure burden and social support , and the psychological status and social support was negatively correlated (r =-0.23--0.61; P<0.05).But the psychological status was associated with the pressure burden of family caregivers of hepatic cancer patients (r=0.11-0.63;P<0.05).Conclusions Mental disorders are common in main family caregivers of hepatic cancer patients , mainly in the aspect of SOM , O-C, DEP and ANX.Therefore, more attention should to be paid , and more efforts should be taken to improve their social support and decrease their pressure burden .
