The relationship between anticipatory grief and illness uncertainty among Chinese family caregivers of patients with advanced lung cancer: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Correlation between anticipatory grief and illness uncertainty among family caregivers

	Anticipatory grief	Grief	Feelings of loss	Anger	Irritability	Guilt	Anxiety	Decreased ability to function at usual tasks
illness uncertainty	0.580**	0.471**	0.180**	0.498**	0.545**	0.508**	0.531**	0.449**
unpredictability	-0.021	-0.073	-0.108	0.106	0.049	0.033	-0.007	-0.088
ambiguity	0.578**	0.510**	0.268**	0.416**	0.457**	0.490**	0.529**	0.468**
complexity	0.474**	0.399**	0.194**	0.448**	0.439**	0.390**	0.394**	0.334**
lack of informativeness	0.282**	0.151**	-0.116	0.299**	0.440**	0.270**	0.290**	0.261**

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