Yihedego, Eyerusalem (2017) Assesment of Quality Of Life and Associted Factors among Familiy Caregivers of Adualt Cancer Patients in Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Chronic disorders like cancer lead to disturbance in quality of life of caregivers since care giving requires much time and effort, great physical and emotional energy expenditure, and also hinders caregivers’ social engagements and role of care giving can be highly stressful, burdensome, and consequently, compromises the caregiver’s quality of life, which could lead to considerable physical, psychological and social impairments. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of life and associated factors among family caregivers of adult cancer patients in Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Method: An institutional based cross-sectional study design was used to conduct the study. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the study participants. The study was conducted from March to May, 2017 among cancer patients’ caregivers. Ethical clearance was obtained from Addis Ababa University and Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital. A standardized interview questionnaire was used to gather information from the study participants. The questionnaire was adopted from Caregiver Quality Of Life-Index Cancer (CQOLC). Data was cleaned and entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported in to an SPSS version 20 for analysis. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and proportions and analytical statistics i.e logistic regression analysis were used. Results: Among the total 291 cases interviewed, 157 (54 %) of the respondents had low quality of life and 134(46%) of them had high quality of life. 51.5% of the study participants were men. Monthly income of the care givers was AOR=3.5: 95% CI (1.33, 9.24)},{AOR=3.9: 95% CI (1.33, 11.71)} and spousal relationship was AOR=0.32: 95% CI (0.15, 0.70)} which were associated with quality of life. Conclusion and Recommendation: The study revealed that more than half of the caregivers of cancer patient had low quality of life and experienced high burden level. There is a need to design intervention that could reduce the burden of caregivers to help them maintaining high quality of life.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Quality of life, Family caregivers, Cancer |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2018 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2018 13:15 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7139 |
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