Brothers and sisters of childhood acute leukemia survivors: Their long-term quality of life and its determinants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood cancer confront the whole family with a traumatic event. Because brothers and sisters may encounter emotional problems that can remain for a long time and that only few studies have assessed their long-term outcome, our present objectives were to describe the long-term quality of life (QoL) of childhood leukemia survivors' siblings and to explore its determinant.

Methods

Brothers and sisters (from 8-year-old) of survivors included in the French LEA Cohort completed a QoL questionnaire (according to their age). Scores were compared with those reported by age- and gender-matched French general population and by survivors. Using a clustering method, siblings were categorized into 3 groups depending on their level of QoL's scores and factors likely to be lin

SUBMITTER: Faust C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10028038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature