Understanding rural caregivers' experiences of cancer care when accessing metropolitan cancer services: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the experiences of cancer caregivers who live in rural Australia and travel to a metropolitan cancer health service to access cancer treatment.

Design

A qualitative study using semistructured, audio-recorded interviews conducted between December 2017 and July 2018 with caregivers and social workers. Thematic analysis using interpretative descriptive techniques performed on textual interview data within a critical realist paradigm to develop understanding of rural caregivers' lived experiences.

Setting

Participants were from rural areas attending a metropolitan cancer centre in Australia and social workers.

Participants

21 caregivers (16 female) of people with cancer living in rural Australia within a minimum distance of 100 km from the metr

SUBMITTER: Ugalde A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629412 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature