Impact of financial burden on psychological wellbeing among relatives of cancer patients
Keywords:
financial burden, psychological wellbeing, patients with cancerAbstract
Patients with cancer in a family member can create situational crises that can lead to emotional distress throughout the family and may impair the family’s ability to support the patient. To assess the financial burdens in family of patients with cancer and find out the relationship between psychological wellbeing and sociodemographic characteristics of relatives such as age, gender, level of education and the occupational status. A cross-sectional study conducted among 102 participants: the relatives of patients with cancer using the valid financial burden scale; 15 participants participated in the pilot study prior to the main study. The study carried out in the Euphrates Centre for Carcinogenic Tumours in Al-Najaf City, Iraq. This study indicates that there is a severe impact of financial burden of patients with cancer on their family members at the mean score of 45.94 (52.9%). Participated in the current study were male (68.2%), 28-37 years old (38.8%), married (64.7%), and (29.4%) of them were unemployed. The result indicated that family members of patients with cancer experienced a severe financial burden as a result of their patients’ illnesses.
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