Abstract: 【Abstract】Objective To understand the family burden among caregivers for home peritoneal dialysis patients and to explore its influencing factors. Methods The general information questionnaire of patients and caregivers, the Family Burden Scale of Disease (FBS) and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) were used to investigate 112 pairs of peritoneal dialysis patients and their caregivers who were reviewed in the Peritoneal Dialysis Clinic of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. Results Moderate or high family burden was found in 44.6% of the caregivers. The highest standardization score and proportion of family burden were family economic burden (58.0% ), followed by family leisure and entertainment (47.3%), family daily life (42.9%), family relationship(22.3%), family member psychology health (18.7%), and physical health of family members (2.7%). Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that patients' age (β=-0.240, P=0.002), caregivers' monthly family income (β=-0.353, P=0.001), daily patient care time (β=0.437, P<0.001), and utilization of social support (β =-0.232, P<0.001) were the main factors affecting
caregivers' family burden, which jointly accounted for 48.9% of the total variation. Conclusion Caregivers have various degrees of family burden of the illness. Attentions should be paid to caregivers with lower monthly family income, with longer care time, and for younger patients with low support utilization. Targeted measures should be carried out to reduce the family burden among caregivers.

Key words: Peritoneal dialysis, Home treatment, Caregiver, Family burden, Social support