Poor mental health days and depressive disorders comparing non-caregivers, informal non-cancer caregivers, and informal caregivers of cancer patients: BRFSS 2022–23
Jeanne M Ward, John R Blosnich, Victoria Champion · 2026
Read Poor mental health days and depressive disorders comparing non-caregivers, informal non-cancer caregivers, and informal caregivers of cancer patients: BRFSS 2022–23 by Jeanne M Ward, John R Blosnich, Victoria Champion (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13669027.txt.
Description
Jeanne Ward, John Blosnich, and Victoria Champion published this 2026 survey study comparing the mental health of cancer caregivers, other caregivers, and non-caregivers in the United States. More kin now give care, and cancer care is among the heaviest loads. Data came from the 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in the 24 states that asked about care.
The samples were large: 157,539 people who gave no care, 39,047 caring for someone without cancer, and 3,078 caring for a cancer patient. Before the checks for other traits, the care groups told of more poor mental health days than the no-care group. More of them had also at some point been told they had depression. Regression models weighed care status against age, sex, schooling, work, body health, and exercise. The authors use this split to ask if cancer care has its own mental health cost.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jeanne M Ward, John R Blosnich, Victoria Champion |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |