Terminal Cancer: Putting Numbers to Caregiving’s Emotional Toll

August 27, 2018

(MedPage Today) – More than 80% of caregivers for patients with terminal cancer exhibited clinically significant psychological distress, a British survey showed. Survey responses from 1,500 adult caregivers showed that 83% had clinically significant psychological morbidity, as defined by scores on a validated general health questionnaire. Across all age groups, the rates of distress were five to seven times higher as compared with estimates for the general population.