La influencia de la responsabilidad del cuidado en el bienestar socioeconómico de los cuidadores de pacientes oncológicos infantiles de la Fundación FUPEC

Abstract

It is known that child cancer care is an enormous task for family caregivers globally, based on this, the problem focuses on the invisibility of caregivers and the responsibility they have in relation to care in the quality or well-being of the caregiver, considering as the objective of the study to analyze the influence of care responsibility on the socioeconomic well-being of caregivers in charge of childhood cancer patients belonging to FUPEC. For this, its approach was based on a case study, with qualitative methodological orientation, The data showed that the caregivers are family members, which is why they are called informal, who oversee the care and attention of the patient, being the woman the one who mostly complies with it, the existence of gaps such as the lack of economic resources and a low level of education, both are intervening agents in the treatment and care process. Based on this, the study design only allowed interpreting the associated factors, however, causality was not analyzed, which is why limitations in its development are evident.