ABSTRACT
Cancer disease is growing rapidly. Patients need intensive care during treatment which leads to the burden of care for the caregivers. Demographic characteristics are the rich factors of caregiver burden. Formal caregivers experience an average level of burden as compared to informal caregivers. This literature review aims to synthesize the determinants associated with caregiver burden in Asian countries, to examine how caregivers improve the patient's quality of life. A systematic review was conducted from Google Scholar, Psych info, PubMed, and Scopus. A total of 861 articles were screened, and 37 studies were analyzed. The study was completed through a descriptive research design. The predictors that are most important for predisposing to the burden of care are the gender of caregivers, affinity with patients, age of the caregivers, and unhealthy coping styles. The burden of care is a more challenging situation for female caregivers than for males. Affinity with patients is the most common determinant for enhancing the level of burden among caregivers. The age of the caregiver also led to a higher burden. Uneducated caregivers feel more burden of care compared to educated ones because education empowers the capability of coping with encountering a stressful situation. Gender, affinity with the patient, age, education level, and caregiving duration are important predictors. Furthermore, patients’ cognitive capacity, dependency level, and behavioral problems cause a burden. Interventions are needed to relieve the burden of providing intensive care among caregivers to patients.
