Cancer is a disease that requires long-term management, especially now that medical advances have transformed most cancers from an acute to a chronic condition. Most of the time, therefore, the help provided by family and friends is long-term. The negative impact of oncological care on the quality of life of family caregivers has already been studied. The UCOGB carried out a study in 2014 on the primary caregivers of cancer patients aged 70 and over at inclusion and at 3 and 6 months of oncogeriatric care. This study showed that several factors were significantly related to the caregiver's quality of life: the caregiver's age, perception of burden and patient autonomy (18). However, the evolution of quality of life and burden at 5 years has, to our knowledge, never been evaluated.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
62
Zarit Burden Inventory French version and SF12
Chu Dijon Bourgogne
Dijon, France
To determine the quality of life of the primary caregiver of cancer patients 70 years of age and older, 5 years after initial management.
Quality of life is measured using the SF-12 (short form) questionnaire. This is an abbreviated version of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health survey (SF-36).
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
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