Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on caregivers and adolescents and young adult survivors of childhood cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caregivers and adolescents and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors may be at greater psychosocial risk from the COVID-19 pandemic than healthy peers due to complex and traumatic medical histories. This study describes COVID-19-related event exposures, impact, and distress among a large sample of caregivers and AYA cancer survivors and the relationship of these variables to demographic and cancer characteristics.

Procedure

From May 2020 to December 2021, 422 caregivers and 531 AYA survivors completed the COVID-19 Exposures and Family Impact Survey (CEFIS) and CEFIS-AYA, respectively. Total COVID-19-related exposures, average COVID-19-related impact, and COVID-19-related distress were calculated. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze free-text responses a

SUBMITTER: King-Dowling S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12944686 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature