A comparative assessment of psychological and psychosocial characteristics of cancer patients and their caregivers
| Autor: | G. Massara, G. Nuvolone, Anna Maria Zotti, S. Rossi Ferrario |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Hostility Anxiety Quality of life (healthcare) Neoplasms Activities of Daily Living medicine Personality Humans Interpersonal Relations Psychiatry media_common Aged Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Disease Management Middle Aged Neuroticism Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Oncology Caregivers Quality of Life Female medicine.symptom Psychology Psychosocial Prejudice Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psycho-oncology. 12(1) |
| ISSN: | 1057-9249 |
| Popis: | We recruited 50 cancer patients and their caregivers with the aim of extending our knowledge of emotional, personality and psychosocial variables, and comparing their reciprocal experience of the disease. The patients and caregivers were administered four of the questionnaires included in the Cognitive Behavioral Assessment 2.0, the Family Strain Questionnaire and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. The patients were characterised by significantly greater emotional disturbances than their caregivers, who were emotionally stable and had a relatively low level of perceived strain despite their high level of hostility and state anxiety. The intra-scale correlations highlighted the fact that the perception of distress depends on neuroticism and the presence of anxiety and depression (which are themselves known to be connected with neuroticism). The everyday life of the caregivers seemed to be characterised by restricted social relationships and interests; a relatively large proportion also declared that they had practical problems related to disease management, economics and some embarrassing and stigmatic aspects of the disease itself. |
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