Impact of childhood cancer on the mental health of parents

Dockerty, John D.; Williams, Sheila; McGee, Rob; Skegg, D. C. G.

doi:10.1002/1096-911x(20001101)35:5<475::aid-mpo6>3.0.co;2-u

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“…Correlations of social support with psychological distress, helplessness and uncertainty, however, were found in neither fathers nor mothers. Other studies [13,21,22] showed positive correlations between parental emotional functioning and social support, but these findings concern a shorter period after diagnosis than in the present study.…”

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“…Several studies indicate that social support can protect parents from the stress caused by their child's disease and treatment [13,[21][22][23]. In families of a child with cancer, higher scores on family cohesion and adaptability were found to be correlated with lower parental anxiety and fewer parental post-traumatic-stress symptoms [22].…”

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Emotional functioning of parents of children with cancer: the first five years of continuous remission after the end of treatment

2007

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Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate parental emotional functioning during the first five years of continuous remission after the end of their child's treatment and to identify predictors of parental emotional functioning.Methods: Psychological distress and situation-specific emotional reactions were assessed in 122 mothers and 109 fathers from 130 families. Longitudinal mixed model analyses were performed to investigate to what extent generic and disease-related coping, family functioning and social support were predictive of parental emotional functioning over time.Results: Initial elevated levels of distress, disease-related feelings of uncertainty and helplessness returned to normal levels during the first two years after the end of treatment. Being more optimistic about the further course of the child's disease (predictive control) was correlated with lower psychological distress and less negative disease-related feelings, while more passive reaction patterns were correlated with higher psychological distress and more negative disease-related feelings.Conclusions: Although in general the parents of children with successfully treated cancer showed adequate emotional resilience, support for these parents should not stop when treatment ends. Parents in need of help can be identified on the basis of their coping abilities.

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Emotional functioning of parents of children with cancer: the first five years of continuous remission after the end of treatment

2007

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“…Only five studies had a sample size of 100 children or more [18,19,25,37,55]. The total number of caregivers and children included 2,262 mothers, 1,099 fathers, 65 parents (gender of parent not specified), and 15 other caregivers (e.g., grandparent, stepparent) of 2,600 children with cancer.…”

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Developing a literature base to understand the caregiving experience of parents of children with cancer: a systematic review of factors related to parental health and well-being

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Raina

Reineking

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“…The reduction of anxiety, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness improve health status [9]. The study states that the parents of the child with cancer, in general, confirm the relationship between social support and well-being expressed with lower levels of anxiety and depression [10].…”

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Relationship between social supports and Anxiety of mothers treating child with cancer

Fetriyah¹,

Mulatsih²,

Pangastuti³

2017

Proceedings of the 2nd Sari Mulia International Conference on Health and Sciences 2017 (SMICHS 2017)

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Objective: To analyze the association between social support and mother's anxiety, the category of social support received, needed by mother treating the child with cancer. Method: This study non-experimental approach sequential explanatory mixed method strategy. Analytical correlation cross-sectional study 49 mothers treating the child with cancer in Installing Child Health Hospital Dr. Sardjito selected by consecutive sampling, qualitative exploration 9 informants selected by purposive sampling. The research instrument using Social Support Questionnaire, Pediatric Inventory for Parents, in-depth interview guide. Analysis using Pearson and content analysis. Results: Mother's worried long-term effects of cancer (55, 10%). The correlation number of support persons with mother's anxiety (r = 0.166; p = 0.253), correlation between satisfaction received support with mother's anxiety (r = -0.330; p = 0.021). Findings are mothers who less social support are the risk of severe anxiety, mothers get meaningful support and needed such as information and emotional support from family, neighbors, fellow who had the child with cancer, health workers. Instrumental and appraisal support from families, neighbors, friend, health workers. The mother states information support is important from the health worker, the fellow who had the child with cancer it makes to adapt, accept child's condition, emotional support from family make mother felt more confident treating child's. Conclusion: There is no correlation number of support persons and mother's anxiety. There is a significant negative correlation satisfaction received support and mother's anxiety. Category of support received, needed by mother especially information, emotional support.

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Impact of childhood cancer on the mental health of parents

Abstract: We found statistically significant but small differences between the mental health of parents of children with cancer and controls. The small differences suggest that as a group the parents of children with cancer are relatively resilient.

Cited by 73 publications

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Emotional functioning of parents of children with cancer: the first five years of continuous remission after the end of treatment

Emotional functioning of parents of children with cancer: the first five years of continuous remission after the end of treatment

Developing a literature base to understand the caregiving experience of parents of children with cancer: a systematic review of factors related to parental health and well-being

Relationship between social supports and Anxiety of mothers treating child with cancer

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