Perceived social support and health‐related quality of life in AYA cancer survivors and controls

Tremolada, Marta; Bonichini, Sabrina; Basso, Giuseppe; Pillon, Marta

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“…However, if compared with a control group of healthy peers, HSCT‐healed patients, in this case both adolescents and young adults, reported a higher level of emotional well‐being, lower limitations related to this area, and less bodily pain. This was a quite new finding, because most studies showed more bodily pain (Berbis et al., ; Forinder et al., ), while emotional well‐being was usually comparable with norms (Schultz et al., ; Uderzo et al., ), even though there was found the same result in a recent Italian study on a cohort of childhood cancer survivors (who did not exclusively undergo HSCT) (Tremolada et al., ). HSCT experience was considered as potentially traumatic, even if off‐therapy patients could manifest also resilience in coping with painful life events.…”

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“…They showed lower educational attainment than their healthy peers (Berbis et al, 2013), especially those who received HSCT for haematological malignancies showed acute and chronic neurocognitive deficiencies (Shah et al, 2008) that could lead to more academic difficulties, resulting in less educational attainment (Freycon et al, 2014;Tremolada, Bonichini, Basso, & Pillon, 2016a).…”

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“…Childhood cancer survivors who had undergone HSCT mainly rated their long‐term life satisfaction (Uderzo et al., ) and their overall HRQOL as comparable with norms or as similar among treatment groups, but bodily pain was reported as higher, while general health and self‐esteem were lower (Forinder, Löf, & Winiarski, ; Schultz et al., ; Tremolada, Bonichini, Taverna, Basso, & Pillon, ), especially by allogeneic recipients and those with active chronic graft versus hospice disease (GVHD) (Armenian et al., ). They showed lower educational attainment than their healthy peers (Berbis et al., ), especially those who received HSCT for haematological malignancies showed acute and chronic neurocognitive deficiencies (Shah et al., ) that could lead to more academic difficulties, resulting in less educational attainment (Freycon et al., ; Tremolada, Bonichini, Basso, & Pillon, ).…”

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This study was aimed at comparing adolescent and young adult (AYA) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) paediatric cancer survivors and a control group of healthy peers in terms of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and frequency of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). The participants were 32 AYA HSCT survivors and 28 matched healthy peers. The survivors were, on average, 19.4 years old (SD = 3.8), with an average age of 8.1 years (SD = 4.3) at diagnosis, and with a mean time, since treatment was completed, of 8.5 years (SD = 3.2). The majority of survivors (78.1%) did not show clinical PTSS, with intrusion symptoms most frequently reported in those who had undergone autologous HSCT (F = 3.3; df = 2; p = 0.05) and relapse presence in their treatment associated with more PTSS avoidance symptoms (r = 0.4; p = 0.002). Women reported more problems in the SF-36 pain scale (t = 2.1; df = 31; p = 0.04) than men. Additionally, 87.5% of survivors fell below the 25th percentile in the SF-36 general well-being scale, and 70.8% had the same trend for the SF-36 fatigue scale. Survivors reported better emotional well-being (t = 2.6, df = 27, p = 0.01) and fewer limitations than their healthy peers (t = 2.5, df = 27, p = 0.02), while they perceived a lower life satisfaction referring to the past (t = -2.8, df = 27, p = 0.009).

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“…The primary focus of this study was to investigate the relationships among PTG, loneliness, depression, social capital, and psychological resilience. In addition, three variables (age, gender, and household income) were included as potential confounding covariates given that they have been found to be related to these major variables in prior studies (Kaplan, Shema, & Leite, ; Tremolada, Bonichini, Basso, & Pillon, ; Vishnevsky, Cann, Calhoun, Tedeschi, & Demakis, ). For example, older age was found to be associated with greater PTG (Tremolada et al., ), women reported greater PTG (Vishnevsky et al., ), and higher income was found to be associated with lower psychological disorders (Lorant et al., ; Sareen, Afifi, McMillan, & Asmundson, ).…”

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An exploration of posttraumatic growth, loneliness, depression, resilience, and social capital among survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among posttraumatic growth (PTG), loneliness, depression, psychological resilience, and social capital among survivors of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The survey was administered to a spatially stratified, random sample of households in the three coastal counties of Mississippi. A total of 216 participants were included in this study who lived in close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico coastline during both disasters. Results from structural equation modeling analyses indicated that there was a significant and inverse relationship between PTG and loneliness. Conversely, a direct relationship was not found between PTG and depressive symptoms; instead, the results revealed an indirect relationship between PTG and depressive symptoms through loneliness. Social capital was related to loneliness only indirectly through PTG, while psychological resilience was related to loneliness both directly and indirectly through PTG. Understanding the relationships among these factors, particularly the importance of PTG, can provide insight into the long-term adaptation among those who have survived multiple disasters. Further, these findings may lead to nuanced methods for behavioral health practitioners in assessing and treating individuals with symptoms of depression in disaster-prone communities.

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“…There are long-term physiological and psychological sequelae of these treatments that may not manifest until paediatric survivors become adolescents [2,3], although other studies [4,5,6] suggest in these ex-patients a best psycho-social wellbeing than sane peers.…”

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Self-Esteem and Academic Difficulties in Preadolescents and Adolescents Healed from Paediatric Leukaemia

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Adolescents with cancer may demonstrate problems in their self-esteem and schooling. This study aims to screen the preadolescents and adolescents more at risk in their self-esteem perception and schooling difficulties post-five years from the end of therapy. Twenty-five paediatric ex-patients healed from leukaemia were recruited at the Haematology-Oncologic Clinic (University of Padua). The mean age of the children was 13.64 years (Standard Deviation (SD)) = 3.08, range = 10–19 years), most were treated for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) (84%) and relatively equally distributed by gender. They filled in the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Test, while parents completed a questionnaire on their child’s schooling. Global self-esteem was mostly below the 50 percentile (58.5%), especially regarding interpersonal relationships (75%). An independent sample t-test showed significant mean differences on the emotionality scale (t = 2.23; degree of freedom (df) = 24; p = 0.03) and in the bodily experience scale (t = 3.02; df = 24; p = 0.006) with survivors of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) having lower scores. An Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed significant mean differences in the bodily experience scale (F = 12.31; df = 2, p = 0.0001) depending on the survivors’ assigned risk band. The parent reports showed that 43.5% of children had difficulties at school. Childhood AML survivors with a high-risk treatment were more at risk in their self-esteem perceptions. Preventive interventions focusing on self-esteem and scholastic wellbeing are suggested in order to help their return to their normal schedules.

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Perceived social support and health‐related quality of life in AYA cancer survivors and controls

Cited by 77 publications

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Health-related quality of life in AYA cancer survivors who underwent HSCT compared with healthy peers

Health-related quality of life in AYA cancer survivors who underwent HSCT compared with healthy peers

An exploration of posttraumatic growth, loneliness, depression, resilience, and social capital among survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Self-Esteem and Academic Difficulties in Preadolescents and Adolescents Healed from Paediatric Leukaemia

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