ArticleCancer2013
Cumulative family risk predicts sibling adjustment to childhood cancer.
Article in Cancer, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Adolescent siblings of children with cancer: a qualitative study from a salutogenic health promotion perspective.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020Article
- The Influence of Parent Distress and Parenting on Bereaved Siblings' Externalizing Problems.Journal of child and family studies · 2020Article
- Parent proxy assessment of sibling quality of life following pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Family Members Dealing With Childhood Cancer: A Study on the Role of Family Functioning and Cancer Appraisal.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Grief and growth in bereaved siblings: Interactions between different sources of social support.School psychology quarterly : the official journal of the Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- The Role of Resilience in the Sibling Experience of Pediatric Palliative Care: What Is the Theory and Evidence?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Stress and marital adjustment in families of children with cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2018Article
- Parenting in Childhood Life-Threatening Illness: A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018Article
- Specificity of problem-solving skills training in mothers of children newly diagnosed with cancer: a commentary on the Bright IDEAS program.Translational pediatrics · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundProlonged, intensive treatment regimens often disrupt families of children with cancer. Siblings are at increased risk for distress, but factors underlying this risk have received limited empirical attention. In this study, the authors examined associations between the family context and sibling distress.
methodsSiblings of children with cancer (ages 8-18 years; N = 209) and parents (186 mothers and 70 fathers) completed measures of sibling distress, family functioning, parenting, and parent post-traumatic stress. Associations between sibling distress and each family risk factor were evaluated. Then, family risks were considered simultaneously by calculating cumulative family risk index scores.
resultsAfter controlling for sociodemographic covariates, greater sibling distress was associated with more sibling-reported problems with family functioning and parental psychological control, lower sibling-reported maternal acceptance, and lower paternal self-reported acceptance. When risk factors were considered together, the results supported a quadratic model in which associations between family risk and sibling distress were stronger at higher levels of risk.
conclusionsThe current findings support a contextual model of sibling adjustment to childhood cancer in which elevated distress is predicted by family risk factors, both alone and in combination.
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