Child symptoms, parent behaviors, and family strain in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:How family environment and parental factors affect health status and symptoms in childhood cancer survivors is understudied. We examined the influence of family cohesion, parent distress, and overprotection on child symptom burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and family strain in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. METHODS:Parents of 213 children treated with chemotherapy only completed a survey when survivors were at least 5-year postdiagnosis. Family Environment Scale, Brief Symptom Inventory-18, Parent Protection Scale, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, and Impact on Family were used to assess family cohesion, parental distress, overprotection, child symptom burden and HRQOL, and family strain, respectively. Path analysis was conducted to quan

SUBMITTER: Huang IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298222 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature