The Importance Of Evaluation And Taking Care Of The Patient And Caregiver In The Oncological Disease Experience: A Multicentre Study

e21551 Background: Caregiver and patient are a dyad in which the hardship of one inevitably results in a worsening of the other’s condition. Supporting caregivers so they can deal with their relatives’ cancerous condition is useful to improve both patient care and collaboration with medical teams (Zavagli et al., 2012). Burden of caregivers has psychological and physical negative impact on patients (Gritti et al., 2011). This research matches the effects of the oncological disease on the patients and the caregivers, to find similarities and differences in order to better understand their specific needs and optimizing the support provided to them in hospital setting. Methods: Two different sets of tests are composed of a particular registry paper, SF-36, MAC, BDI-II, STAI-Y, addressed to patients, and SF-36, ZBI, COPE, addressed to caregivers. The samples are made up of 250 patients (M = 107; W = 143) and 143 caregivers (M = 54; W = 89). 34% of the sample had changes in job life due the illness process (C1), while 69% of caregivers had changes in their social, working or familiar life due taking care patients (CC1). 40% of patients in sample of caregivers had received the diagnosis since less than 3 months (CD3), 23% from 3 to 6 months (CD3-6), 14% from 6 to 12 months (CD6-12) and 22% over 12 months (CD12). Results:C1 reported worse levels of “Mental Health Index” (t = 2,016; p = ,045), depression (t = -3,949; p = ,000) and anxiety (t = -3,363; p = ,001) than patients had not changes in job. CC1 had worse levels of “Mental Health Index” (t = 4,276; p = ,045) and burden (t = -6,402; p = ,000) than caregivers without changes in life. Patients who received the diagnosis since less than 3 months reported less “Fighting Spirit” coping style (F(210;8) = 2,76; p = ,006) and worse levels of “Role Limitations due to Emotional Problems” (F(211;8) = 2,346; p = ,020) than in other periods. CD12 reported worse levels of burden than CD3, CD3-6 and CD6-12 (F(136;3) = 3,67; p = ,014). Conclusions:The results suggest that patients and caregivers share a similar suffering related to life changes, but underscore a difference in the adaptation to the disease condition with increasing time from diagnosis.