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INTRODUCTION: This research was carried out to determine the relation between caretaking burden and anger expression styles of the family members who were taking care of a cancer patient. METHODS: This research was carried out between January 2013 and January 2015 at Erzurum Atatürk University Research and Implementation Center and Region Education and Research Hospital Oncology Service Clinics comprised 250 patients’ relatives who accompanied a cancer patient being treated standing or in bed. The research data were gathered using the Explanatory Information Form, Caretaking Burden Scale, and Constant Anger and Anger Expression Style Scale. The accumulated data were evaluated with Unidirectional Variance analysis, Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskal Wallis test, and Pearson Correlation analysis. RESULTS: It was found that the research participants had a distribution of 37.6% living in villages, 53% female, 30% elementary school graduate, 52% with expenditures over income and 57% married. It was also found that the perceptional caretaking burden level was low, while the constant anger, external anger, and internal anger level was medium and the constant anger and anger management level was high. It was indicated that there was a statistically meaningful relationship between the subscale point average of the Constant Anger and Anger Expression Style Scale and the sum average of the Caretaking Burden Scale in a positive direction, while there was a statistically meaningful relationship between the anger management subscale average and the sum average of the Caretaking Burden Scale in a negative direction. CONCLUSION: The demographic findings of the caregivers have shown an effect on the caretaking burden score. Also, as caretakers control anger, the caregiving burden score is affected positively.

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