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- Title
Types and Influence of Social Support on School Engagement of Young Survivors of Leukemia.
- Authors
Tougas, Anne-Marie; Jutras, Sylvie; Bigras, Marc
- Abstract
The present study aimed to describe and explore the influence of social support on the school engagement of young survivors of pediatric leukemia. Fifty-three young Quebecers, previously diagnosed and treated for leukemia, completed a questionnaire measuring their school engagement and participated in an interview focusing on the support offered by four groups of relations with regard to school: parents, siblings, friends, and other nonprofessional relations. The interview responses revealed that parents were perceived to be the primary source of informational and emotional support, with support also provided to a lesser extent by friends, siblings, and members of the extended family. Inferential analyses indicated that young survivors report a higher school engagement score when they perceive themselves as receiving support from a greater number of groups of relations, especially from friends or siblings.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CANCER patient psychology; INFERENTIAL statistics; RESEARCH; SOCIAL support; HUMAN research subjects; ANALYSIS of variance; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT selection; INTERVIEWING; MANN Whitney U Test; ADAPTABILITY (Personality) in children; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); LEUKEMIA in children; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; STUDENT attitudes; PARENTS; CHILDHOOD friendships; QUEBECOIS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of School Nursing, 2016, Vol 32, Issue 4, p281
- ISSN
1059-8405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1059840516635711