Israel Gabriel|Debra K. Creedy|Elisabeth Coyne
Quality of life and associated factors among adults living with cancer and their family caregivers
Griffith University|Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital|Griffith University|Griffith University
study examined association needs health literacy quality life among adult nigerians cancer family caregivers descriptive study conducted involving 240 adults cancer family caregivers attending tertiary hospital twothirds participants reported moderate high needs information 908 spiritual support 85 domains highest need among adults cancer familysocial support 85 spiritual support 817 ranked highest among family caregivers negative correlation found needs quality life stepwise regression analysis showed needs literacy explained 36 variance adults cancers quality life 28 variance family caregivers quality life spiritual need accounted l 95 91 variation adults cancer family caregivers respectively findings suggest interventions focus socialfamily spiritual needs may improve wellbeing adults cancer caregivers nigeria research generalizable lowincome countries family values spirituality often strong feature daily life