The Relationship Between Spiritual Orientation and Care Burden In Relatives of Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

Year 2025, Volume: 13 Issue: 1, 29 - 38, 02.05.2025

Emel Tuğrul , Yıldız Denat , Esma Özaydın

Abstract

One of the most used methods in cancer treatment is chemotherapy. Due to the intense effects of this treatment on the physical and emotional states of patients, patients encounter many problems. It is stated that the caregivers' burden of care increases during this treatment process and it is claimed that the spiritual orientation of the caregivers in coping increases. This study aimed to examine the relationship between spiritual orientation and care burden in relatives of patients receiving chemotherapy. This cross-sectional study was carried out with 131 relatives of patients who received chemotherapy in the chemotherapy unit of a university hospital in western Turkey. As a result of this study, it was determined that the relatives of the patients who received chemotherapy had a quite high level of spiritual orientation and that the majority of them had a low level of care burden; however, no relationship was determined between their spiritual orientation and care burden.

Keywords

Cancer, Care Burden, Chemotherapy, Nursing Care, Spirituality

Ethical Statement

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by Aydın Adnan Menderes University Ethics Committee of Nursing Faculty.

Supporting Institution

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Thanks

The authors would like to thank the patients and their relatives who voluntarily participated in this study and Dr. Hakan Cengiz who made the statistical analyses. We are thankful to Polen Academic Translation & Proofreading Office for proofreading of the manuscript.

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