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- Title
Pediatric Patients Treated for Leukemia Back to School: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Narratives about Daily Life and Illness Experience.
- Authors
Tremolada, Marta; Taverna, Livia; Bonichini, Sabrina; Pillon, Marta; Biffi, Alessandra; Putti, Maria Caterina
- Abstract
In the last few years, more children and adolescents healed from leukemia go back to their daily life, even if they can show some psycho-social difficulties. The study adopted semi-structured interviews and a mixed-method approach to examine the narratives of 75 children and adolescents about their return to school post 2-years treatment for leukemia. The aims are to collect their illness experiences, to understand how they feel about school and daily routines and to identify the best socio-demographic and illness predictors of a good re-adaptation to school and daily life. The results show that by increasing age and when the pediatric patient have received a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, at the stop-therapy time, her/his perception about relationships at school and academic performance decrease, especially if his/her feelings about the disease and follow-up visits are negative.
- Subjects
HEMATOPOIETIC stem cell transplantation; LEUKEMIA; EVERYDAY life; PEDIATRICIANS
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 7, p107
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs10070107