Psychiatric symptom levels and burden care of caregivers of patients receiving chemotherapy Kemoterapi̇ alan hastalara bakim verenleri̇n psi̇ki̇yatri̇k semptom düzeyleri̇ ve bakim verme yükleri̇
Anatolian Journal of Clinical Investigation, cilt.7, sa.1, ss.24-30, 2013 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2013
- Dergi Adı: Anatolian Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.24-30
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Burden care, Cancer, Caregivers, Psychiatric symptoms
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Chemotherapy treatment is a process that affects human life physically and psychologically because of its long duration, side effects, its affecting all the systems and the probability of recurrence at the end. In this process, caregivers as well as the patient have difficulty in physical, psychological and economic terms. The aim of this study is to determine, psychiatric symptom levels and burden care of the caregivers of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The research is a descriptive study made with caregivers of 160 outpatients in the chemotherapy service of an oncology unit of a training hospital. Introductory Information Form, Burden Interview and Brief Symptom Inventory have been used to collect the data. It has been found that somatization, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, hostility, and global severity index and Burden Interview average scores of people caregiving to patients receiving over three cycles of chemotherapy are higher than those of caregivers of patients receiving chemotherapy less than three cycles. It has been found that as Burden Interview score increases, somatization, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety disorder, hostility, phobic anxiety, additional materials, the global severity index and symptom severity index score averages also increase. As a result, it has been determined that psychiatric symptoms and burden care of caregivers increase after third cycle of treatment and it has been proposed that caregivers be informed before the occurrence of side effects of chemotherapy.