Objective To explore the potential category characteristics of benefit finding by caregivers of esophageal cancer patients and analyze the differences in benefit finding among different categories of caregivers.Methods The convenience sampling method was used to select 311 esophageal cancer patients treated in the Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology at a tertiary hospital in Nanchong City from November 2020 to June 2021.The caregivers of pa-tients with esophageal cancer were invested in a simplified coping style questionnaire,general self-efficacy scale,and re-vised Chinese version of the benefit finding scale.Results Benefit finding was classified into low benefit finding,mod-erate benefit finding,and high benefit finding accounting for 17.4％(54 cases),53.7％(167 cases),28.9％(90 ca-ses)respectively.Caregivers who tended to adopt a positive coping style were more likely to belong to the high benefit finding than the low benefit finding(OR=1.322,P＜0.001).Caregivers with higher self-efficacy scores were more likely to belong to the high benefit finding(OR=1.341,P＜0.001).The results of regression analysis showed that positive coping style,self-efficacy,caregiver age,payment method of medical expenses,self-care ability,and disease stage were the factors influencing the benefit finding of caregivers of esophageal cancer(P＜0.05).Conclusion The benefit find-ings of caregivers are at a moderate to low level and have distinct classification characteristics.Healthcare professionals can take targeted nursing interventions based on the different categories of caregivers to improve benefit finding.
Esophageal cancerCaregiverBenefit findingPotential profile analysisTumor nursing care
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