The association of health status and cancer history of young adult survivors of childhood cancer with parental accompaniment to survivorship clinic visits.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adult childhood cancer survivors are frequently accompanied by a parent to survivorship clinic. From clinical evaluations among young adult survivors of childhood cancer we aimed to (1) investigate the association between accompaniment and the survivors' health complexity; and (2) determine whether accompaniment is associated with adherence to recommended surveillance tests and follow-up in clinic.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of all patients ≥ 18 years old at their first visit to the regional Yale Childhood Cancer Survivorship Clinic from 2003 to 2018. Patients underwent standardized evaluations for medical, neurocognitive, and emotional late effects of therapy; individuals accompanying patients were documented.

Results

The 168 patients were a med

SUBMITTER: Janardan SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature