• Department of Breast & Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, Sichuan 629000, P. R. China;
YANG Hongwei, Email: yhw.sn@163.com
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Objective  To explore the level and influencing factors of caregiver burden of children of the patients with breast cancer. Methods  We collected 153 patients with breast cancers and their children in Suining Central Hospital from January 2014 to July 2015 . Their children were investigated with Zarit Burden Interview and Caregiver Strain Idex. Results  The ZBI score of the patients' children was in the middle level with a total score of 38.09±14.41. The differences in ZBI scores of the influencing factors including different daily sleep time, education, family income and cancer stages of patients were significant (P<0.05). The caregiver strain showed that social pressure was the largest, economy pressure was in the middle, and the psychological pressure was the minimal. Conclusions  The children caregivers of the patients with breast cancer suffer from middle level of burden. Doctors should provide targeted intervention to ease the caregiver burden and improve the life quality of the patients' family.

Citation: HU Jie, YANG Lei, LIU Ying, HUANG Yunhui, YANG Hongwei. The level and influencing factors of caregiver burden on children of the patients with breast cancer. West China Medical Journal, 2017, 32(7): 1015-1018. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201603028 Copy

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