Navigating the emotional landscape: exploring caregivers' journey alongside breast cancer survivors with chronic pain.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Caregiving is a crucial but frequently overlooked part of cancer care, as well as the main emotions experienced by caregivers during that journey. This qualitative study aimed to explore the emotional landscape of informal caregivers in supporting breast cancer survivors (BCs) living with chronic pain (CP).

Methods

We conducted 3 focus groups with informal caregivers of BCs with CP. For the sentiment analysis, we used R Software and the NRC Emotion Lexicon following Plutchik's theoretical framework of emotions. The emotion spectrum was visualized using the "PyPlutchik" package in Python.

Results

Caregivers (M_age = 43.17, SD = 10.97) predominantly experienced negative emotions (n = 65; M = 0.06, SD = 0.25) compared to positive ones (n = 37; M = 0.10,

SUBMITTER: Filipponi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11649734 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature