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Alternative Title:
Support Care Cancer
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-013-1931-3
Personal Author:
Li, Chunyu ; Zeliadt, Steven B. ; Hall, Ingrid J. ; Smith, Judith Lee ; Ekwueme, Donatus U. ; ... More +
Li, Chunyu ; Zeliadt, Steven B. ; Hall, Ingrid J. ; Smith, Judith Lee ; Ekwueme, Donatus U. ; Moinpour, Carol M. ; Penson, David F. ; Thompson, Ian M. ; Keane, Thomas E. ; Ramsey, Scott D. Less -
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Purpose

Informal care plays an important role in the overall care for people with cancer. This study estimates lost productivity and informal caregiving and associated costs among partner caregivers of localized prostate cancer patients within 1 year after diagnosis.

Methods

We applied data from the Family and Cancer Therapy Selection study, a three-wave self-administered survey among patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer and their partner caregivers in multiple clinics in the USA. Time spent was measured by the sum of working hours lost, informal caregiving hours performed, and hours spent on household chores. The national median income for women 55 years or older was used to calculate costs associated with the time spent using the opportunity cost method. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted.

Results

The average working hours decreased from 14.0 h/week (SD=17.6) to 10.9 h/week (SD=15.9), without a significant change in responsibility/intensity at work. The mean annual time spent on informal caregiving and household chores was 65.9 h/year (SD=172.4) and 76.2 h/year (SD=193.3), respectively. The mean annual economic burden among partner caregivers was US$6,063 (range US$571–US$47,105) in 2009 dollars accounted for by a mean of 276.2 h (range 26–2,146) in the study sample. The time spent on informal caregiving and household chores varied by patient and caregiver characteristics.

Conclusions

Pilot estimates on non-medical economic burden among partner caregivers (spouses) during the initial phase of the treatment provide important information for comprehensive estimation of disease burden and can be used in cost-effectiveness analyses of prostate cancer interventions.


Subject:
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Activities Of Daily Living
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 And Over
Caregivers
Cost Of Illness
Female
Humans
Income
Male
Middle Aged
Prostatic Neoplasms
Regression Analysis
Retrospective Studies
Spouses

Source:
Support Care Cancer. 21(12):3461-3469.
Pubmed ID:
23955026
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4535430
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
HSF6/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
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