ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Asman Che Bakar, Eizwan Hamdie Yusoff2, & Ainsah Omar1

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Psychiatric morbidity and quality of life among family caregivers of hospice patients with cancer: a home based community preliminary study .

แหล่งที่มา/Source: ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry .Vol 9, July-December 2008. page 78-84 .

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective: This descriptive cross-section, community-based study examined the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and quality of life (QOL) and the associated factors among family care givers of hospice patients with cancer. Methods: Subjects were 50 family caregivers of cancer patients under the care of Hospice Malaysia homecare. Home visits were done in Klang Valley. Psychiatric morbidity was detected using GHQ-30 English and Bahasa Malaysia versions, and the QOL was assessed by the Short Form 36 items (SF-36) questionnaire. Results: The study results showed that 54% of respondents had psychiatric morbidity. The educational status and the relationship between family caregivers and the cancer patients were statistically significant (p‹0.05) associated with psychiatric morbidity. Among the respondents, scores of all domains of QOL were lower than those of the general Malaysian population. There were statistically significant associations between the relationship of family caregivers and cancer patients, as well as bodily pain and mental health domains (p<0.05) and between gender and social functioning domains (p0.05). Conclusion: The study demonstrates that caregivers of cancer patients are at risk for psychiatric illnesses and low QOL.

Keywords: psychiatric morbidity, quality of life, hospice, Malaysia

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: 1 Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi, MARA, Malaysia

Code: 2010000223

ISSN/ISBN: 02183420

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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