Abstract:Objective: To explore the interdependence between depression and intimacy in lung cancer patients and their family caregivers for further developing a patient- and caregiver-centered dyadic intervention. Methods: A convenient sampling was adopted to select 182 dyads of lung cancer patients and their family caregivers; the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Mutuality Scale (MS) were used to measure participants’ depression and intimacy respectively; and the correlati… Show more
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