Evaluation of Psychosocial Problemsof the Home-bound Cancer Patient

The Relationship of Disease and the Sociodemographic Variables of Patients to Family Problems

David K Wellisch PhD Associate Professor, Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90024

Fawzy I Fawzy MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

John A Landsverk PhD Assistant Reserach Sociologist

Robert O. Pasnau MD Professor, Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

Deane L. Wolcott MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

Abstract

The records kept by home health agencies on 447 homebound married cancer patients were evaluated to determine the types of psychosocial problems experienced by the families in home care. Results showed that families of older male patients with lung cancer felt more overwhelmed and depressed than other families, and families of younger female patients with cervical cancer were more likely to have interpersonal frictions and difficulties in the role shifts mandated by the illness.

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