pediatric cancer and parent divorce

PURPOSE: Cancer in children leads to changes in family life, which can also affect the stability and quality of the parents' relationships. Studies show that parents' educational level, duration of partnership until diagnosis, child's cancer, and grandparents' relationship stability may influence parental partnership. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of childhood cancer on the stability and quality of parental relationships in Germany. METHODS: N = 74 parents of children with cancer aged 28-65 years (M = 41...

Background: Leukemia is the most frequent cancer in children and adolescents, and it has a high prevalence of depression and anxiety which deteriorates the quality of life related to health. The symptoms of depression and anxiety may go unnoticed by the physician as a normal response during cancer treatment. Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and health-related quality of life in pediatric patients with leukemia. Material and methods: study with the participation of Mexican children and adolescents with leukemia whose depression was determined with the Childhood Depression Inventory, their anxiety with the Spence Childhood Anxiety Scale, and their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with PedsQL 4...

BACKGROUND: Pediatric cancer-induced financial burden is source of stress for parents, particularly mothers, single parents, and parents with lower incomes. This financial burden has been linked to poorer family quality of life (QOL) in terms of new onset material hardships, and could also affect individual QOL in terms of parents' stress-related symptoms. Our purpose was to describe pediatric cancer-induced financial burden among parents of children with that diagnosis, its effects on their stress-related symptoms (distress, anxiety, cognition impairment, sleep impairment), and associations between select risk factors (relationship to the child, marital status, income) and the extent that financial burden affected parents' symptoms...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the risk for separation (ending cohabitation) of the parents of a child with a diagnosis of cancer. METHODS: In a nationwide cohort, we compared the risk for ending cohabitation of the parents of 2450 children (aged 0-20 years) given a diagnosis of cancer with the risk of parents of 44 853 randomly selected, gender- and age-matched cancer-free children. We adjusted for socioeconomic position and demographic factors...

INTRODUCTION: The present study examines behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with smoking intentions and experimentation among adolescent survivors of pediatric cancer. METHODS: Adolescent survivors of brain tumor and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n  =  99) provided information about their smoking histories and their intentions to smoke in the future. Behavior rating scales were completed by survivors, parents, and teachers. RESULTS: Past experimentation with smoking and higher levels of self-reported aggression were associated with intentions to smoke in the future (OR  =  4...