Perceptions of burden of caregiving by informal caregivers of cancer patients attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 18, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Akpan Idiok, Paulina Ackley ^a   Anarado, Agnes Nonye ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Caregiving; Informal caregivers; Nigeria; Perceptions of burden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGERIA; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL STATUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ZARIT BURDEN INTERVIEW SCALE; AGED; CHRISTIANITY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FAMILY; FRIEND; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN RELATION; ISLAM; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CHRISTIANITY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME NURSING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NIGERIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903304710     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.159.2995     Document Type: Article

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