Anxiety and related factors among parents of patients with breast cancer after surgery in Japan: A multi-informant and multilevel study.
Rei OshiroTakafumi SoejimaKeiichiro TadaKazuya HondaShinji OhnoKuniko YubuneSeigo NakamuraHarumi FukuchimotoJunko TakeiHideko YamauchiKiyoko KamibeppuPublished in: Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS (2021)
Parents of patients with breast cancer had high anxiety. Communication, providing cancer-related information, and fulfilling care needs can alleviate anxiety in parents of patients with breast cancer after surgery. Furthermore, increasing family support and decreasing patients' anxiety are essential to alleviating mothers' anxiety.