title: Making it work: informal caregiving, cancer, and employment.
abstract: Studies of informal caregivers for people with cancer have primarily focused on the family, or personal factors that contribute to, or mediate the stress associated with providing care to a loved one. However, the majority of research models have failed to consider the role that workplace factors may play in caregivers' work-family conflict, and stress. This qualitative study identifies the workplace factors that inhibit or facilitate the ability of informal caregivers of cancer patients to provide care to a loved one and to determine the aspects of caregiving that hinder caregivers' ability to meet work responsibilities. Implications for further research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: MMHS University of Kentucky, College of Social Work, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, USA. jswanberg@uky.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Swanberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology