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Parental palliative cancer: psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life in adolescents participating in a German family counselling service.
- Source :
- BMC Palliative Care; 2012, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p21-29, 9p, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Background: Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered. The objectives of this paper were a) to identify differences in psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents and young adults with parents suffering from palliative cancer or cancers in other disease stages, b) to relate psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life to adolescent coping, and c) to explore significant mediator and predictor variables. Methods: Cross-sectional data were derived from a multi-site research study of families before child-centered counselling. N=86 adolescents and young adults were included, their mean age 13.78 years (sd 2.45), 56% being female. Performed analyses included ANCOVA, multiple linear regression, and mediation analysis. Results: Adolescents with parents suffering from palliative cancers reported significantly less total psychosocial problems, and better overall HRQoL. There were no significant group differences regarding coping frequency and efficacy. Our set of coping items significantly mediated the effect of parental disease stage on psychosocial problems and HRQoL. Further, parental disease status and general family functioning predicted psychosocial problems (R<superscript>2</superscript><subscript>adj</subscript> =.390) and HRQoL (R<superscript>2</superscript><subscript>adj</subscript> =.239) best. Conclusion: The study indicates distress among adolescents throughout the entire parental disease process. Our analysis suggests that counselling services could offer supportive interventions which focus particularly on adolescent coping as well as family functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of covariance
CANCER
CHI-squared test
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
COUNSELING
FAMILY medicine
QUALITY of life
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
TERMINAL care
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1472684X
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Palliative Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 84746152
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-11-21