Disease Self‐Monitoring Behaviors and Influencing Factors Among Family Members of Patients With Digestive Tract Cancer: A Latent Profile Analysis

Key Points

• Examine self-monitoring behaviors of family members of patients with digestive tract cancer and identify influencing factors.
• Conducted a latent profile analysis to categorize self-monitoring behaviors.
• Analyzed the impact of education level, income, cohabitation, comorbidity, and cancer risk perception.
• Surveyed family members of digestive tract cancer patients.
• Nearly 50% of family members displayed insufficient self-monitoring of early symptoms.
• Education level and income significantly influenced self-monitoring behaviors.
• Tailored interventions focusing on risk awareness were suggested based on findings.