Family Relationships and Psychosocial Dysfunction Among Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Caring for a family member with advanced cancer strains family caregivers. Classification of family types has been shown to identify patients at risk of poor psychosocial function. However, little is known about how family relationships affect caregiver psychosocial function.

Objectives

To investigate family types identified by a cluster analysis and to examine the reproducibility of cluster analyses. We also sought to examine the relationship between family types and caregivers' psychosocial function.

Methods

Data from 622 caregivers of advanced cancer patients (part of the Coping with Cancer Study) were analyzed using Gaussian Mixture Modeling as the primary method to identify family types based on the Family Relationship Index questionnaire. We then examine

SUBMITTER: Nissen KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5497710 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature