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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The mutual impact and moderating factors of quality of life between advanced cancer patients and their family caregivers

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Abstract

Purpose

Cancer and its treatment can affect quality of life (QOL) in cancer patient and family caregiver dyads. However, the factors influencing dyad QOL remain inconclusive. Our study was designed to (i) assess dyads’ QOL, and examine the relationship between the QOL of cancer patients and that of their family caregivers, and (ii) investigate factors that may modify this relationship.

Methods

Participants comprised 641 cancer patient-family caregiver dyads. Four types of variables were collected as potential influencing factors, including cancer patient–related variables, family caregiver–related variables, family-related variables, and symptom distress–related variables.

Results

Generally, family caregivers reported better QOL than cancer patients did. The effect sizes of the correlation (r) between cancer patients’ QOL and those of their family caregivers ranged from 0.08 to 0.27. Various variables influencing the QOL correlations between cancer patients and family caregivers were identified, including cancer patient–related variables (e.g., age, gender, marital status, understanding of the disease, cancer type and treatment); family caregiver–related variables (e.g., being the spouse or offspring of a patient, duration in their role as a family caregiver, understanding of the disease, and amount of time spent on caregiving each day); family-related variables (e.g., cancer patient enjoyed a good relationship with family pre-cancer diagnosis, family was experiencing serious or mild financial burden due to cancer treatment); and symptom stress–related variables (anxiety and depression).

Conclusions

Study findings draw attention to QOL and its related factors in cancer patient-family caregiver dyads. This will benefit the development of interventions to improve dyad QOL.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of all related hospitals and all participants for sharing their experiences in this study. The authors are also grateful to two reviewers for their very helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript.

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Financial support of this study was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81773297).

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  1. Wuxi Medical School, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

    Yi Lin & Qiuping Li

  2. Shanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China

    Caiping Hu

  3. Wuxi People’s Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

    Yinghua Xu

  4. Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

    Jie Zhao

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Lin, Y., Hu, C., Xu, Y. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: The mutual impact and moderating factors of quality of life between advanced cancer patients and their family caregivers. Support Care Cancer 28, 5251–5262 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05351-x

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