The relationship between the level of hope and personality, care of burden in the primary caregivers of advanced cancer patients

Abstract

Objective To investigate the level of hope, personality characteristics and the care of burden of the primary caregivers of advanced cancer patients, and to analyze the correlation between the level of hope and personality characteristics and care of burden. Methods 201 primary caregivers of terminal cancer patients were selected from May to September in 2016. HHI, NEO-FFI and ZBI were used to investigate the participants. Results The hope of the participants were all in moderate to high levels. The level of hope of the participants was significantly positively correlated with the scores of extraversion and conscientiousness (r=0.165, 0.235, P<0.05) . It was significantly negatively correlated with neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and burden care, r=-0.258--0.179, P<0.05. Conclusions The medical staff should give interventions timely according to the personality characteristics and care burden of the main caregivers of patients with advanced cancer, so that the level of hope could be improved in order to improve their psychological health. Key words: Advanced cancer; Caregivers; Hope level; Personality; Care burden