Impact of WeChat Use among Cancer Patients' Informal Caregivers: An Exploratory Intervention Study in China

The treatment for cancer increasingly requires patients’ informal caregivers (ICGs) involved throughout the disease trajectory. This can cause a great deal of psychological burden to the lives of ICGs. Through a 10-week... [ view full abstract ]

The treatment for cancer increasingly requires patients’ informal caregivers (ICGs) involved throughout the disease trajectory. This can cause a great deal of psychological burden to the lives of ICGs. Through a 10-week smart-phone based social media intervention program, this study investigates ICGs’ usage patterns of social media and the impacts of such a program to ICGs’ strain and self-efficacy levels.