Providing Psychological Support to Parents of Childhood Cancer Survivors: 'Cascade' Intervention Trial Results and Lessons for the Future.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a three-armed trial to assess Cascade, a four-module group videoconferencing cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) intervention for parents of childhood cancer survivors currently aged <18 years. We allocated parents to Cascade, an attention control (peer-support group), or a waitlist. The primary outcome was parents' health-related quality of life (PedsQL-Family Impact/EQ-5D-5L) six months post-intervention. Parents also reported their anxiety/depression, parenting self-agency, fear of recurrence, health service and psychotropic medication use, engagement in productive activities, confidence to use, and actual use of, CBT skills, and their child's quality of life. Seventy-six parents opted in; 56 commenced the trial. Cascade achieved good parent engagement and most Cascade parents

SUBMITTER: Wakefield CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8615912 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature