Table 2.
Men living with prostate cancer | |
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Age (years) | # Participants (N = 23) |
49–58 | 6 |
59–68 | 10 |
69–78 | 4 |
79–88 | 3 |
Total | 23 |
Type of palliative treatment 1 at the hospital | |
Hormone treatment | 15 |
Surgical Castration (2)/ Radical prostatectomy (4) | 6 |
Radiation | 4 |
No longer being actively treated | 4 |
Level of education | |
Nil | 8 |
Primary | 5 |
Secondary | 2 |
Tertiary | 8 |
Occupation | |
Nil | 3 |
Teacher | 1 |
Farmers | 3 |
Retired (both mandatory & voluntary) | 8 |
Traders | 4 |
Priest | 1 |
Artisans | 3 |
Family caregivers | (N =23) |
Relationship to patient | |
Wife/spouse | 10 |
Child/Children | 9 |
Mother | 2 |
Sibling | 2 |
Years of experience working as a caregiver | |
<1 (less than 1) | 12 |
1–2 | 7 |
3–4 | 3 |
5+ | 1 |
some of the men received more than one treatment.