Informal caregivers of people with cancer: Survey of psychosocial burdens and needs assessment for self-help-based support services.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- ANGEHRIGEDERKREBSERKRANKTENC00-C97Malignant neoplasms
- Registration Number
- DRKS00027422
- Lead Sponsor
- Stiftungsprofessur Selbsthilfeforschung, CCC Freiburg, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 330
Inclusion Criteria
The study is going to include partners of people with cancer, parents of adult children with cancer, and adult children of parents with cancer. Voluntary consent to participate in the study is required.
Exclusion Criteria
The study excludes minors, potential participants with language barriers, severe cognitive impairments, or severe mental illnesses that make study participation impossible.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Study aim: assessment of burden and needs of informal caregivers of cancer patients, in particular identification of needs that can be adressed through selfsupport organisations. <br><br>Interview data collection: Interview data are analyzed by content analysis (according to Kuckartz, 2018). Hypotheses are developed from the results, which are incorporated into the questions of the subsequent online survey and quantitatively tested on a larger sample. <br><br>Questionnaire survey: all characteristics will be analyzed descriptively statistically. For the analysis of the scientific questions, relationships between characteristics are identified by correlations and regression analyses.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method