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Table 5 Summary of the variables associated with informal caregivers’ unmet needs

From: Unmet care needs of advanced cancer patients and their informal caregivers: a systematic review

Study

Demographics of caregivers

Caregivers’ physical symptom

Relationship

Patients-related

Older

Female

Education level

Length of caregiving

Care setting

Spousal caregivers

Patients’ anxiety

Patients’ depression

Lower physical performance

[30]

-(fin, PM, soc.,)

F (+phy)

M (+ inf)

        

[32]

    

Conventional hospital care > hospice care (symptom management, psy support, religious support)

     

[35]

     

+ (overall)

 

+(overall)

+(overall)

+(overall)

[9]

   

      

[39]

   

Home > hospital (inf)

 

+

   

[63]

-(soc,psy,inf)

 

-(psy)

+(soc)

+(soc)

 

+

-(inf)

   
  1. Notes: “-”: negative relationship; “+”: positive relationship; “fin”: financial needs; “PM”: pain management; “soc”: social needs; “phy”: physical needs; “inf”: information needs; “overall”: overall needs