1. Surviving cancer: The psychosocial outcomes of childhood cancer survivors and its correlates
- Author
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Carmina Castellano-Tejedor, Marta Pérez-Campdepadrós, Lluís Capdevila, and Tomás Blasco-Blasco
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Male ,Coping (psychology) ,Emotional support ,Adolescent ,Childhood cancer ,03 medical and health sciences ,Social support ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cancer Survivors ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Applied Psychology ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,Social Support ,Explained variation ,Distress ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Linear Models ,Normative ,Female ,business ,Psychosocial ,Stress, Psychological ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
This study assessed the psychosocial outcomes of adolescent cancer survivors and their relationship with personal and socio-familiar factors. Using a cross-sectional design, 41 survivors answered the four psychosocial dimensions of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire and measures for social support and coping. Similarly, 41 parents answered coping and cancer-related distress measures. All psychosocial scores were within normative values (50 ± 10). Multiple linear regression analyses revealed four models with a range of explained variance between 9.4 percent and 31.9 percent that include the informative and emotional support, parental distress, and coping. This study contributes to the understanding of psychosocial outcomes of childhood cancer survivors and its correlates.
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- 2014