Systematic review of financial burden assessment in cancer: Evaluation of measures and utility among adolescents and young adults and caregivers.

ABSTRACT: The cost of cancer care is rising and represents a stressor that has significant and lasting effects on quality of life for many patients and caregivers. Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are particularly vulnerable. Financial burden measures exist but have varying evidence for their validity and reliability. The goal of this systematic review is to summarize and evaluate measures of financial burden in cancer and describe their potential utility among AYAs and their caregivers. To this end, the authors searched PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and PsycINFO for concepts involving financial burden, cancer, and self-reported questionnaires and limited the results to the English language. They discarded meeting abstracts, editorials, letters, and case reports. The a

SUBMITTER: Salsman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8113116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature