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KMID : 0379220200400010111
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2020 Volume.40 No. 1 p.111 ~ p.130
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Family Members’ Caregiving Experience for Middle-aged and Elderly Breast Cancer Survivors at Early
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Park So-Young
Park Hyang-Kyun
Koo Hyang-Na
Baek Jung-Yun
Noh Eun-Jeong
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Abstract
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This qualitative study aims to understand family members’ caregiving experience for middle-aged and elderly breast cancer survivors at early stages. A total of four families of breast cancer survivors were given focus group interviews(FGI), and an additional family was interviewed individually. The thematic analyses of the FGI and individual in-depth interview discussions revealed the following four themes: first, day-to-day feelings like walking on thin ice (entangled emotions with each treatment stage, regret of watching a survivor’s pain, f ear of recurrence and death, concerns of changes in family relationships, and various feelings experienced as a daughter), second, caregiving has become a mainstay in my life (unfamiliar and unskilled care, losing my life), third, beginning to recover and different experiences between a survivor and a family caregiver (not understanding a survivor’s pain from the abyss, forgetting that the survivor is still a cancer patient and that treating him or her casually), and fourth, moving forward (hope that things will be better, taking care of myself to prevent exhaustion). Based on the results of this study, we proposed social welfare services and policy measures to reflect the psychosocial needs of family caregivers of breast cancer survivors and support family caregivers during the care process.
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KEYWORD
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Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivors, Family Caregivers, Psychosocial Support Systems, Focus Groups
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