title: [Family functioning and quality of life of the family care-giver in cancer patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among quality of life, family coherence, family hardiness, and family resources of the family care-giver caring for a cancer patient.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data was collected by questionnaires from 137 families with a cancer patient at a General Hospital and Government Cancer Hospital. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The score of quality of life showed a significant positive correlation with the score of the level of family sense of coherence, family hardiness, and family resources. The most powerful predictor of quality of life was sense of coherence and the variance was 30%. A combination of sense of coherence and family resources account for 34 % of the variance in quality of life of the family care-giver caring for a cancer patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that family sense of coherence, hardiness, and family resources were significant influencing factors on the quality of life of the family care-giver caring for a cancer patient.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Korea University, 126-1, AnAmDong, SungBukGu, Seoul, Korea. hksun@korea.ac.kr
authors.forename: Kuem Sun
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Soon Yong
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Khim
authors.forename: Sook Ja
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Eun Sook
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Young-Joo
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jeong Hwa
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kwang Mi
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyun-Chul
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Ji Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Yoon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires