The Relationship of Illness Longevity and Relapse With Self-Perception, Cancer Stressors, Anxiety, and Coping Strategies in Children with Cancer
| Autor: | Virginia Kemp, Colleen Dilorio, Marilyn Hockenberry-Eaton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Longevity Psychological intervention Disease Anxiety Pediatrics Recurrence Neoplasms Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Trait anxiety Child Psychiatry media_common Psychological Tests Oncology (nursing) Stressor Cancer medicine.disease Self perception Self Concept Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing. 12:71-79 |
| ISSN: | 1532-8457 1043-4542 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/104345429501200206 |
| Popis: | A descriptive, correlational design was used to investigate the relationship of the longevity of the cancer experience and the presence of a relapse to the child's self-perception, cancer stressors, anxiety, and use of coping strategies. The 44 children included in this study were 6½ to 13½ years of age. Fifteen of the children had experienced a relapse of the disease either on or off therapy. The longevity of the cancer treatment and the presence of a relapse were negatively associated with the child's self-perception. Trait anxiety was positively associated with duration of the cancer experience and with the presence of a relapse. Longevity of the cancer experience and the presence of a relapse may be factors that signal the need for interventions designed to enhance the child's self-perception throughout treatment. Because children in this study who reported lower self-perception and higher trait anxiety levels also reported experiencing more cancer stressors, nursing efforts to develop Innovative strategies designed to enhance patients' feelings of self-worth and decrease their anxiety may prove to be important contributions to the care of children receiving treatment for cancer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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