Communication Interventions for Families with Parental Cancer With Dependents: Findings from a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2019, invasive cancer diagnoses in people younger than 50 years old have increased by 12.8%, which impacts people of childbearing age. Currently, family interventions for parents with cancer primarily focus on the impacted parent communicating the initial cancer diagnosis or at end-of-life messages with their dependents through in-person interventions. Limited web-based interventions have been developed to increase communication across all family members (e.g., parents with cancer with co-parents or children with their parents) about communicating the impact of cancer on the individual's and family's well-being across the cancer trajectory, a key gap to improved outcomes in this population.

Aim

This scoping review aimed to comprehensively summarize family co

SUBMITTER: Caparso C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670638 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature