Efficacy of a support intervention designed to improve parents' communication with children dealing with parental cancer: a randomized pilot trial.

Autor: Liénard A; Institut Jules Bordet, Clinique de Psycho-Oncologie, Rue Meylemeersch, 90, 1070, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium. aurore.lienard@bordet.be.; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Recherche en Psychosomatique et Psycho-Oncologie, 50 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium. aurore.lienard@bordet.be., Lamal S; Institut Jules Bordet, Clinique de Psycho-Oncologie, Rue Meylemeersch, 90, 1070, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Recherche en Psychosomatique et Psycho-Oncologie, 50 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium., Merckaert I; Institut Jules Bordet, Clinique de Psycho-Oncologie, Rue Meylemeersch, 90, 1070, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Recherche en Psychosomatique et Psycho-Oncologie, 50 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium., Razavi D; Institut Jules Bordet, Clinique de Psycho-Oncologie, Rue Meylemeersch, 90, 1070, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Recherche en Psychosomatique et Psycho-Oncologie, 50 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer [Support Care Cancer] 2022 Dec; Vol. 30 (12), pp. 9823-9832. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 08.
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-022-07380-0
Abstrakt: Objective: Cancer-related communication is critical for parents' and children's adaptation to the disease. This randomized pilot study was conducted to test the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a 4-session intervention designed to improve parents' communication.
Methods: A 4-session intervention was developed to aid parents to support their children through more open/adapted communication. Sixty-six parents were assigned randomly to informational booklet with and without 4-session support intervention arms. Parents' communication self-efficacy, communication behaviors, communication difficulties, knowledge about age-appropriate communication, theoretical knowledge about concerns of children, parenting concerns, and distress were assessed by questionnaires at baseline and post-interventions. Multivariate analyses of variance were performed to compare data between and within groups over time.
Results: The intervention attrition rate was 6%. Data from 60 participants were included in analyses. Parents in the informational booklet with 4-session support group increased their communication self-efficacy (F = 4.5, p = 0.04), reduced communication difficulties (F = 4.0, p = 0.05), and increased their knowledge about how to communicate (F = 4.8, p = 0.03).
Conclusion: The results indicate that the 4-session intervention is acceptable, and shows preliminary evidence of efficacy.
Practice Implications: A short support intervention associated with an informational booklet may be useful for parents wishing to improve their communication with their children.
(© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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