Family Psychosocial Risk, Distress, and Service Utilization in Pediatric Cancer: Predictive Validity of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool.

The article discusses a study which aimed to explore the family psychosocial risk, distress and service utilization in children with cancer. The study evaluated stability and the predictive validity of Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) which identifies families who are at risk of coping with adaptation problems. The subjects of the study were caregivers of cancer-stricken children who completed the PAT. The study found that families with higher level of pyschosocial risk are more distressed.