Availability of informal caregivers for palliative care patients with cancer: Is there a difference between higher- and lower-income settings
Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Family caregivers are the default caring personnel for terminal cancer patients. The characteristics, demographics, distribution, psychological burden, and socioeconomic standards differ between high- and low-income countries. We aimed to assess those factors and their direct reflection on both the patient and the caregiver. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a comparative cross-sectional study for terminal cancer patients in the palliative care unit between the United Kingdom (UK) as a high-income community and Egypt as a low-income community. We assessed the different characteristics, demographics, living place, the degree of relevance, and the availability of caregivers. RESULTS: < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: Low-income countries are more common to have an informal caregiver who is a family member of different degree of relevance. Caregivers in low-income settings tend to be younger, of the female gender, married, and living in the same household than in high-income ones.
Authors: KyrillusS Shohdy, Raafat Abdel-Malek, DinaE Farag, Sarah Cox
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2971465698