ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Families Affected by Parental Cancer: Quality of Life, Impact on Children and Psychosocial Care Needs.
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- Psychosocial interventions for families with minor children affected by parental cancer: An umbrella review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Parenting concerns among patients with cancer: a qualitative meta-synthesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Families Addressing Cancer Together for Parents With Cancer: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects.Psycho-oncology · 2025Trial
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- A Minority Within a Minority: Lived Meanings of Cancer Among Arab Young Adults in East Jerusalem.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Developing the parenting concerns scale for cancer survivors and assessment of its validity and reliability in China.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Involving family caregivers in co-design research: a systematic review protocol for developing evidence-based engagement strategies.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Parenting concerns among patients with advanced early-onset lung cancer: a qualitative study based on the ABC-X model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- FamCASP-A Support Model for Individualised Support for Family Members in Routine Cancer Care: Development and Validation.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
- Characterizing the need for childcare support for cancer patients through health care providers' experiences: a qualitative study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Unravelling typology of family life when a parent has heart disease: A qualitative study of families with adolescents.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
- Aiming for survival: a qualitative single case study of support for family members across the care process in outpatient colorectal cancer care.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Helping children cope with a mother's breast cancer diagnosis: 'The telling box' - A pilot study.PEC innovation · 2024Article
- Feasibility of a complex psychosocial intervention for families with parental cancer: acceptability, suitability, implementability, and perceived support.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Young Spouses' Experiences of Having a Partner With Heart Disease and Adolescents Living at Home.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Piloting a new cross-sector model of care to support parents with cancer: feasibility and acceptability of the Parent Support Worker role.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
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Abstract
Parental cancer poses major challenges for families with minor children. Due to diagnosis and treatment family life is disrupted. To prevent long-term consequences in all family members and to design needs-oriented family-centered interventions, further understanding of the family's situation including the impact on the children, quality of life levels and the parental psychosocial needs is necessary. This study aims at investigating the impact of parental cancer on the minor children, family-specific psychosocial needs and quality of life levels of parents and children. Cancer patients parenting at least 1 minor child (<18 years) were eligible for study participation. In total, n=86 cancer patients under treatment participated in the study. After excluding participants without a minor child, 78 patients remained for analyses. We assessed children's quality of life using the parent proxy version of the KIDSCREEN-10 and parental quality of life using the EORTC QLQ C30 quality of life questionnaire. Additionally, the questionnaire comprised open questions about positive and negative changes parents perceived in their children as well as questions on specific family- and child-related psychosocial needs. The majority of participants were mothers (91%), mainly diagnosed with breast cancer (59%). The participating parents provided data on 117 minor children. Parents mentioned positive changes in 38% of the children (e.g., being more attentive and helpful). Negative changes were reported in 37% of the children (e.g., being more anxious and clingy). Parents reported family-specific psychosocial supportive care needs for themselves as a parent (e.g., support regarding parenting concerns), support needs for the partner or the children. Moreover, parents expressed family-related information needs and needs regarding practical aspects (e.g., childcare, household help). Global quality of life was
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