Abstract
Cancer, a terminal illness, has long been a focus of attention due to its fatal nature. Its
diagnosis results in distress not only to the patients and physicians, but also the families
and caregivers involved. This distress is of a multifaceted nature, including
psychological, financial and physical distress. The present paper aims to explore mental
health issues that specifically influence cancer patients’ caregivers. However, in a
country like Pakistan literature is not very rich regarding the mentioned issue.
Therefore, giving rise to the immense need to create awareness concerning this pressing
issue. In this paper, an effort has been made to identify the types of mental health
problems and variables which could potentially affect the mental health of a cancer
patient caregiver. An analysis on the type of issues and associated determining
variables reveals various patients’ variable, situational variable or the caregiver’s own
personality which makes them susceptible to poor mental health. Furthermore, the
paper tries to answer the different question regarding the prevalence rate, current status
of, and awareness on the above mentioned aspect. In the end some possible
recommendations have also been made in the context of the mental health issues
regarding the caregivers of cancer patients discussed in the paper.
Anila Mukhtar, Anila Amber Malik, Ayesha Rasool. (2016) MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN CAREGIVERS OF CANCER PATIENTS, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 55, issue 1.
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