Family caregivers' burden: A hospital based study in 2010 among cancer patients from Delhi

Indian Journal of Cancer

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 146-151

  Lukhmana, S ^a   Bhasin, S K ^a   Chhabra, P ^a   Bhatia, M S ^a  

^a UCMS AND GTB HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Burden; cancer; family caregivers; oncology; predictor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; HOSPITAL; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84958175342     PISSN: 0019509X     EISSN: 19984774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-509X.175584     Document Type: Article

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