Financial distress and its associated burden in couples coping with an advanced cancer

• Published in: Supportive care in cancer Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 4485 - 4495
• Main Authors: Kroll, Juliet L., Kim, Seokhun, Cho, Dalnim, Weathers, Shiao-Pei, Chen, Aileen B., Smith, Grace, Bruera, Eduardo, Milbury, Kathrin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Brain cancer; Brain tumors; Cancer; Care and treatment; Caregivers; Caregivers - psychology; Communication; Couples; Health care expenditures; Humans; Lung cancer; Lung Neoplasms; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Nursing; Nursing Research; Oncology; Original Article; Pain Medicine; Poverty; Quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Rehabilitation Medicine; Spouses - psychology; Stress (Psychology); United States > US; Advanced cancer; End-of-life; Illness communication; Couples; Physical quality of life; Financial distress

Purpose In efforts to understand financial distress (FD) associated with advanced cancer care from the perspective of both patients with incurable disease and their spousal caregivers, we assessed FD in both members of the couple, identified symptom and quality of life (QOL) correlates, and examined...