Prevalence of depression among relatives of cancer patients in Jordan: a cross-sectional survey.

Objective: Depression is common among chronically ill patients and their relatives. In this article, we investigated the prevalence of depression among relatives of cancer patients in Jordan, and studied the relation between several socio-demographic, disease- and treatment-related factors, together with the occurrence of depression among those relatives.

Method: A cross-sectional survey study was conducted at a major university hospital in Jordan.