Kobusingye, AnneMary2023-03-172023-03-172021-112017-BNS-FT-AUG-001http://ir.ciu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/1490An Undergraduate Research Report Submitted To The School Of Nursing And Midwifery In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Award Of A Bachelors Degree In Nursing Sciences Of Clarke International UniversityBackground: Informal caregivers of cancer patients play a key role and provide essential support to cancer patients along the illness trajectory. However, this might put a big burden on the lives and wellbeing of these caregivers. Objectives: This study was conducted among informal caregivers of cancer patients at Uganda Cancer Institute to explore their wellbeing as they take care of their relatives suffering from cancer. Methods: A total of twenty informal caregivers participated in the study. Data was collected through in-depth interviews (eight) and focused group discussions (one for male and the other for female caregivers, each having six participants). Results: Six sub themes emerged from the analysis of data: ―negative wellbeing‖, ―activities of daily living‖, ―treatment support‖, ―financial constraints‖, ―fears and concerns‖ and ―self- rejuvenation‖. The sub themes emerged from ten categories of: ―full time job‖, ―challenging role‖, ―patient feeding‖, ―patient bathing‖, ―medicine giving‖, ―lost employment‖, ―inability to purchase medicine‖, ―patient might die‖, ―spiritual renewal‖, and ―keeping busy‖. Conclusion: Informal caregivers of cancer patients at UCI experience negative wellbeing, attributable to the care giving job being a full-time job and being a challenging role, and also because of financial constraints as well as the fear that the patient might die. However, they cope by listening nourishing message and music. Recommendations: Government and the Uganda Cancer Institute should consider improving the wellbeing of informal caregivers of cancer patients for example through extending to them financial and emotion support activities.enCaregiver burden_ Cancer PatientsInformal caregivers _ Cancer PatientsThesis