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- Patients with chronic liver disease often require help from family caregivers, yet there's limited research on these caregivers' experiences.
- The study focused on 73 family caregivers, examining their demographics, mental health (depression and anxiety), and levels of hazardous drinking, highlighting a significant emotional and financial burden.
- Findings indicate that interventions are necessary to support caregivers, especially to address their income loss and mental health issues, as many were found to have clinically significant depressive symptoms.
Article Abstract
Patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) often experience severe symptoms that cause functional impairment and necessitate assistance from a family caregiver. Few studies investigate family caregivers of patients with CLD. This descriptive correlation study described demographic characteristics, depressive and anxiety symptom levels, and prevalence of hazardous drinking, rewards, and subjective burden and explicated predictors of subjective burden and mental health status for a convenience sample of 73 family caregivers of persons with CLD. Interventions are needed to offset decreased income reported by caregivers and to treat depressive symptoms; clinically significant levels were present, and clinical referrals were warranted in this study sample.
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