Caregiver burden, quality of life, and psychosocial outcomes among informal caregivers of patients with glioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Haimeng Wei, Shuo Zhang, Shuai Tao, Jing Li, Xiaonan Liu · 2026
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Haimeng Wei and four co-authors pooled evidence on the toll of caring for someone with a brain glioma in a 2026 review. Gliomas damage thinking, movement, and behavior, so family caregivers carry complex, long care loads. The team searched five databases and combined ten studies.
Clinically significant burden appeared in about 60 percent of caregivers. Depression affected about 35 percent, anxiety 36 percent, and distress a striking 68 percent. A smaller comparison against caregivers of other cancers found no statistically clear difference. The authors argue that glioma caregiving is heavy by any measure and that support services should treat the caregiver as a second patient in the room.
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| CREATOR | Haimeng Wei, Shuo Zhang, Shuai Tao, Jing Li, Xiaonan Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |