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KMID : 0856920150180040314
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
2015 Volume.18 No. 4 p.314 ~ p.321
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Family Caregivers’ Quality of Life, Depression and Anxiety according to Symptom Control in Hospice Patients
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김윤희:Kim Yun-Hee
이승훈:Lee Seung-Hun/임호섭:Lihm Ho-Seop/최영진:Choi Young-Jin/김윤진:Kim Yun-Jin/이상엽:Lee Sang-Yeoup/이정규:Lee Jeong-Gyu/정동욱:Jung Dong-Wook/유경화:Yu Kyoung-Hwa
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Abstract
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Purpose: It is well known that a terminal cancer condition affects not only patient themselves but their family members because the patients experience a variety of symptoms. This study was aimed to investigate modifiable factors that influence family caregivers’ quality of life, depression, and anxiety.
Methods: From January 2015 through May 2015, a survey was conducted with 61 family caregivers of hospice patients who were hospitalized in two university hospitals and one municipal hospital in Busan. The questionnaire was consisted of characteristics of family caregivers and patients, the Korean version of the Caregiver Quality of Life Index-Cancer (CQOLC-K), Beck’s Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), Beck’s Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and patient’s symptom controlling scores rated by family caregivers.
Results: Family caregivers’ depression was associated with religion. Quality of life and depression of family caregivers were also influenced by monthly household income. Patient age was inversely related to family caregiver’s quality of life (rs=?0.259, P=0.043). Family caregivers’ quality of life was associated with patient’s anxiety (r=0.443, P=0.001). Family caregivers’ depression was affected by patient’s constipation (r=0.276, P=0.046), anxiety (r=0.508, P＜0.001), and daytime drowsiness (r=0.377, P=0.005). And family caregivers’ anxiety was influenced by patients’ sleep disturbance (r=0.276, P=0.046), depression (r=0.297, P= 0.031), and anxiety (r=0.357, P=0.009).
Conclusion: According to our findings, family caregivers had higher quality of life and less depression and anxiety when symptoms in hospice patients were well controlled.
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KEYWORD
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Neoplasms, Hospices, Caregivers, Depression, Anxiety, Quality of life, Constipation
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