Open AccessThe Experience of Family Caregivers Living with Advanced Cancer Patients
Author(s) -
Wanda Kiyah George Albert,
Zulkarnain Ahmed Hatta,
Adi Fahrudin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
asian social work journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0128-1577
DOI - 10.47405/aswj.v2i1.14
Subject(s) - moderation , self efficacy , quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , family support , family caregivers , clinical psychology , interpersonal communication , medicine , psychotherapist , gerontology , social psychology , physical therapy
This article is based on literature review regarding family experiences in taking care of advanced cancer patients. Four aspect of the family cancer experience were identified from the literature: stress, burden, self-efficacy and self-esteem. The most developed body of literature documents due to family responses towards burden and stressful experience in caregiving was caused by their unprepared and inability to provide care and lack of support from other family members and health care providers. Caregiver’s burden and stressful experiences reporting would be the strongest relationship for lower levels of self-efficacy and self-esteem. The results of this review suggest that more research is needed on family experience and consider interpersonal support as a potential source or moderator variable in enhance family quality of life.