Alghamdi Wardah A, Almatrafi Montaha A, Asiri Rimas A, Almuraee Lama A, Alsharif Sarah M, Makhdoum Faizah M, Alghamdi Malak A, Althubaiti Alaa, Alghamdi Majed A
College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah 22384, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah 22384, Saudi Arabia.
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Feb 27;13(5):521. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13050521.
Cancer is a chronic and serious disease that has a wide range of effects on patients, some of which extend to family members and primary caregivers (PCs), thereby affecting their quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study was to evaluate the QOL of PCs of patients with cancer and to investigate the sociodemographic and other factors that impact PCs' QOL. This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Princess Noura Oncology Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, and included 235 PCs. A short-form health survey-the SF-36, which includes eight domains-was used to measure the QOL of patients' PCs. The relationship between the QOL of PCs and the characteristics of patients and PCs was examined. The QOL of PCs was associated with several variables. Multiple regression analysis showed that older age, female sex, and caring for patients with hematological malignancies were independent, significant variables associated with lower PCs' QOL, whereas PCs caring for female patients experienced a better QOL. These findings highlight the essential aspects of caregivers' QOL and their influencing factors. To better understand the implications of these factors, future studies are required to demonstrate the effects of patient- and disease-related factors on PCs' QOL.
癌症是一种慢性严重疾病，对患者有广泛影响，其中一些影响还波及家庭成员和主要照料者（PCs），进而影响他们的生活质量（QOL）。本研究的目的是评估癌症患者的主要照料者的生活质量，并调查影响主要照料者生活质量的社会人口学及其他因素。这项横断面研究在吉达阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王医疗城的努拉公主肿瘤中心进行，纳入了235名主要照料者。采用包含八个领域的简短健康调查问卷——SF - 36来测量患者主要照料者的生活质量。研究了主要照料者的生活质量与患者及主要照料者特征之间的关系。主要照料者的生活质量与多个变量相关。多元回归分析表明，年龄较大、女性以及照料血液系统恶性肿瘤患者是与主要照料者较低生活质量相关的独立显著变量，而照料女性患者的主要照料者生活质量较好。这些发现凸显了照料者生活质量的重要方面及其影响因素。为了更好地理解这些因素的影响，未来需要开展研究以证明患者和疾病相关因素对主要照料者生活质量的影响。
