Development and testing of a scale to measure caregiving load in caregivers of cancer patients in Taiwan, the care task scale - Cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-231

  Chen, Hsiu Chuan ^a   Chen, Mei Ling ^a   Lotus Shyu, Yea Ing ^a   Tang, Woung Ru ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Care demand; Care task; Caregiving burden; Family caregivers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EMOTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TAIWAN; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34347223661     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000270701.49543.64     Document Type: Article

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