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- Title
Relationship between the level of parental distress and the emotional and behavioural problems of the child with cancer.
- Authors
Goloiu, Teodora; Bălan, Stelian; Gliga, Fotinica
- Abstract
Objectives. The level of parental psychological distress can influence the well-being of the child with cancer during the oncological treatment. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the affective disorder (AD) of the parent and the emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) of the child with cancer. The environmental objective was to improve and adapt the therapeutic intervention for patients and their families. It has been hypothesized that the existence of siblings, the gender differences, the type of treatment and the time since the diagnosis may influence the correlation between AD and EBP. Measurements. The transversal correlational study used PDA as tools (Opriş and Macavei, 2005) to measure AD and CBCL (Achenbach and Rescorla, 2001) for EBP measurement of the child with cancer. Participants. Seventy-two participants were selected from the Institute of Oncology Bucharest and the Fundeni Clinical Institute. Subjects were children (N=36) with cancer/leukaemia in active chemotherapy (Cht) or Radiotherapy (Rdt) (M=13.4, SD=3.7). The sample consisted of 17 girls and 19 boys, of which 61.1% had combined treatment and 47.2% had been diagnosed for more than six months. Thirty-six mothers (M=40.4, SD=7.2) were involved in the study. Results. The Spearman correlation coefficient revealed significant correlations between AD and the symptoms of depression, social problems, and the attention problems among boys who have siblings, problems increasing during hospitalization and in combined treatment. Conclusions. The results indicate that psychological intervention should be centred on the specific relationship between mother and child, involving the extended family, adapted to the gender differences, the type of treatment and the duration of hospitalization of the child/young person with oncological diagnosis.
- Subjects
AFFECTIVE disorders; CHILDHOOD cancer; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p60
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Abstract