The Factors Influencing the Development of Psychological Problems in the Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.240How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Palliative Care; Terminal Care; Caregivers; Psychological Adjustment; Emotional Disturbance

Abstract

Palliative care is a type of active, whole-person care for people who have incurable, deteriorating, or short-lived diseases. It focuses on minimizing pain and other non-painful illnesses while also addressing important mental, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects. This paper reviews previous research into the psychological problems and influencing factors of caregivers of palliative care patients and categorizes the influencing factors into two categories: external and internal to the caregiver. The internal caregiver factors include the caregiver’s history of mental illness, perception of the patient’s condition, satisfaction with the marriage and gender differences; the external factors include the patient’s stage of illness development and symptoms, the patient’s attitude and communication, and formal support. In addition, social support for caregivers was not targeted, and future research could build on this paper to target policies and services based on factors influencing patients’ caregivers’ psychological problems in the expectation of meeting their actual psychological needs.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yi Hao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - The Factors Influencing the Development of Psychological Problems in the Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1324
EP  - 1328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.240
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.240
ID  - Hao2022
ER  -