Study on the Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Family Resilience of Patients With Recurrent Cancer and Their Caregivers.
Yaoyao Pei, Zhangying Xu, Xingjuan Luo and 4 others
PMID 40184014WHAT IT FOUND
In 204 pairs of patients with recurrent cancer and caregivers, higher social support and hope were linked to higher family resilience; burden was linked to lower resilience.
Patient family resilience showed no reported link with quality of life.
Key findings
01Patients with recurrent cancer had a reported mean family resilience score of 3.01, and their caregivers had 3.05.
02Patient family resilience was positively correlated with patient and caregiver social support and hope, and negatively correlated with patient self-perceived burden and caregiver burden.
03In the dyadic model, patient and caregiver social support and hope were positively associated with their own family resilience, and caregiver hope was positively associated with patient family resilience.
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What it does not show
The study measured patients and caregivers at one time point, so it cannot show whether social support, hope or burden caused changes in family resilience. It was done in one hospital in China using convenience sampling, so the families may not represent other settings or populations. The authors note that convenience sampling and single-centre design can leave the sample under-representative, and that confounding variables were included but could not completely remove this effect. The study did not follow families over time, so it did not observe how resilience changes during disease progression. The total family resilience score did not differ significantly between patients and caregivers (p = 0.053), and patient family resilience was not correlated with quality of life.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The study was funded by the Hubei Provincial Central Guidance Local Science and Technology Development Project.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that raising social support or hope will increase family resilience. This was a cross-sectional survey, so the reported associations cannot show cause. The study also did not test an intervention.