Psychotropic Medication Use in Parents of Children Diagnosed With Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Objective measures on parental distress after a child's cancer diagnosis are sparse. We examined the risk for first prescription of psychotropic medicine among parents of children with cancer compared with parents of children who were cancer free. In addition, we examined if sociodemographic and clinical characteristics are associated with risk of first prescription of psychotropic medication in parents of children with cancer. We followed all parents of children with cancer (N = 6744) from the Danish Cancer Registry (1998-2014) using parents of matched children who were cancer free (N = 65 747) as a comparison. To identify vulnerable subgroups among parents of children with cancer, we followed all parents of children with cancer from the Childhood Cancer Registry (2003-2015; N = 3290 pare

SUBMITTER: Salem H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7548106 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature