The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies

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Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Ricardo João
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Remondes-Costa, Sónia, Graça Pereira, M, Brandão, Tânia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/4335
Resumo: Caregiving can be experienced as a stressful process, which can cause psychological and physical consequences. The combination of prolonged stress and the physical demands of caregiving may impair the physiological functioning of caregivers and increase the risk of health problems creating considerable stress in the life of caregivers regarding emotional, physical, social and financial areas. This literature review explored studies that used measures of the autonomic nervous system in caregivers of oncology patients such as electrodermal and cardiovascular (re)activity. The results revealed that caregivers had elevated stress levels and a serious autonomic imbalance that may, in the long term, trigger negative health consequences such as infectious diseases, cancer progression, cardiovascular disease and even premature death. The results showed the need to carry out preventive strategies in this population, in order to improve the autonomic profile of caregivers of cancer patients.
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title The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
spellingShingle The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
Teixeira, Ricardo João
Informal caregivers
Cancer.
Peripheral Measures
Autonomic Nervous System
title_short The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
title_full The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
title_fullStr The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
title_full_unstemmed The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
title_sort The impact of informal cancer caregiving: A literature review on psychophysiological studies
author Teixeira, Ricardo João
author_facet Teixeira, Ricardo João
Remondes-Costa, Sónia
Graça Pereira, M
Brandão, Tânia
author_role author
author2 Remondes-Costa, Sónia
Graça Pereira, M
Brandão, Tânia
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Teixeira, Ricardo João
Remondes-Costa, Sónia
Graça Pereira, M
Brandão, Tânia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Informal caregivers
Cancer.
Peripheral Measures
Autonomic Nervous System
topic Informal caregivers
Cancer.
Peripheral Measures
Autonomic Nervous System
description Caregiving can be experienced as a stressful process, which can cause psychological and physical consequences. The combination of prolonged stress and the physical demands of caregiving may impair the physiological functioning of caregivers and increase the risk of health problems creating considerable stress in the life of caregivers regarding emotional, physical, social and financial areas. This literature review explored studies that used measures of the autonomic nervous system in caregivers of oncology patients such as electrodermal and cardiovascular (re)activity. The results revealed that caregivers had elevated stress levels and a serious autonomic imbalance that may, in the long term, trigger negative health consequences such as infectious diseases, cancer progression, cardiovascular disease and even premature death. The results showed the need to carry out preventive strategies in this population, in order to improve the autonomic profile of caregivers of cancer patients.
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