Comparing adult-child and spousal caregiver burden and potential contributors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adult-children caring for a parent with cancer comprise a significant segment of caregivers. Yet less is known about adult-child caregivers, their burden, or caregivers' and patients' gender's impact, which may differ from the well-studied spousal caregiver. This knowledge gap may hinder efforts to ameliorate adult-children's caregiver burden.

Methods

We analyzed caregiver surveys from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium, a multi-regional population-based study of patients with colorectal or lung cancer. Using t tests and multivariate regression models, we assessed whether adult-child and spousal caregivers' caregiving responsibilities and social/emotional and financial burdens differed and used structural equation models (SEMs) to examin

SUBMITTER: Fenton ATHR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038651 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature