Implicaciones psicosociales de los cuidadores informales de pacientes con cáncer en etapa terminal
The objective of this theoretical review article was to know the psychosocial implications of informal caregivers of patients with end-stage cancer. The methodology used was the bibliographic tracking of scientific articles consulting different databases, with discrimination of dates between 2013 an...
- Autores:
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Arias Escobar, Daniela
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad de San Buenaventura
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio USB
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/8357
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10819/8357
- Palabra clave:
- Implicaciones psicosociales
Cuidadores informales
Pacientes con cáncer en etapa terminal
Psychosocial implications
Informal caregivers
Patients with end-stage cáncer
Cáncer
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- Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia
| Summary: | The objective of this theoretical review article was to know the psychosocial implications of informal caregivers of patients with end-stage cancer. The methodology used was the bibliographic tracking of scientific articles consulting different databases, with discrimination of dates between 2013 and 2020; The “Abstracts” and sometimes the full texts were read to attach the required articles and discard the additional ones. Similarly, literature on the topics chosen by manual search was included. Finally, the information found was organized in a bibliographic card format to carry out a state-of-the-art exercise. It was found that the majority of informal caregivers are women who sometimes have a low or medium educational level, it was identified that emotional tension, physical and emotional overload, due to lack of knowledge to exercise the role of caregiver, the adaptation process to the disease and treatment, financial difficulties and fear of the death of the family member are some of the main psychosocial implications of informal caregivers. It is concluded that the different variables referring to the impact or overload generated in informal caregivers also occasionally affects cancer patients and generates a sense of guilt; to address these problems, psycho-oncological intervention is required to be oriented towards monitoring and developing coping strategies aimed at all those involved in the process, which are, family members and cancer patients in terminal stages |
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