Latent profile of psychological disengagement among family caregivers of postoperative chemotherapy patients with breast cancer and its influencing factors
DAI Jing'en
JIANG Ling
ZHANG Yan
MAO Chenrong
MA Chengjin
LI Xianwen
Abstract：Objective To explore the categories of psychological detachment among the main caregivers of patients with breast cancer after chemotherapy and analyze its influencing factors.Methods A convenience sampling method was used to select 220 main caregivers of patients with breast cancer and who were treated in Suzhou Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University between December 2023 and June 2024 as the research subjects.They were surveyed using a general information questionnaire,the psychological detachment scale,the self-rating anxiety scale,the self-rating depression scale,Zarit caregiver burden scale,the social support rating scale,and the family adaptability and cohesion scale.Moreover,the latent profile analysis was used to explore the potential category characteristics of psychological detachment among the main caregivers,and multiple Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors of different potential categories.Results The psychological detachment of the main caregivers of patients with breast cancer after chemotherapy can be divided into three potential categories:low detachment group(45.45％),medium detachment group(35.45％),and high detachment group(19.10％).The results of multiple Logistic regression analysis showed that total care duration,daily care time,care burden,and social support were the influencing factors of psychological detachment among the main caregivers.Conclusion There are obvious classification characteristics of psychological detachment among the main caregivers of patients with breast cancer after chemotherapy.Clinical nursing staff can take targeted intervention accordingly to improve their level of psychological detachment.
Keywords：Breast cancerMain caregiverPsychological detachmentLatent profile analysisInfluencing factors
Publication Date：2025-09-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-10-30(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 529-534,9535 )