BACKGROUND: Social and family factors can influence the health outcomes and quality of life of informal caregivers. Little is known about the distribution and correlates of such factors for caregivers of @entity5 @entity1 . This study sought to fill this gap with data from the @entity5 Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance consortium. METHODS: Lung and @entity14 @entity1 nominated an informal caregiver to participate in a caregiving survey. Caregivers reported their sociodemographic and caregiving characteristics, social stress, relationship quality with the @entity1 , and family functioning. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations were used to assess the distribution of caregivers' social factors. Multivariable linear regressions assessed the independent correlates of each social factor. RESULTS: Most caregivers reported low to moderate levels of social stress and good relationship quality and family functioning. In multivariable analyses, older age was associated with less social stress and better family functioning but worse relationship quality, with effect sizes (Cohen's d) up to 0.40 (P   <   .05). Caring for a female @entity1 was associated with less social stress and better relationship quality but worse family functioning (effect sizes    <=   0.16, P   <   .05). Few caregiving characteristics were associated with social stress, whereas several were significant independent correlates of relationship quality. Finally, social factors were important independent correlates of one another. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate the importance of personal and caregiving-related characteristics and the broader family context to social factors. Future work is needed to better understand these pathways and assess whether interventions targeting social factors can improve health or quality-of-life outcomes for informal @entity5 caregivers. @entity5 2015. Published 2015. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

Social factors in informal XXXX caregivers: The interrelationships among social stressors, relationship quality, and family functioning in the CanCORS data set.

@entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer', 'Cancer'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity14 :: ('MESH:D015179', 'Disease') :: ['colorectal cancer']
@entity5 :: (MESH:D009369,Disease) :: ['cancer']
