Parenting Stress and Information Needs at the End of Treatment after Complete Remission of Leukemia

Yang-Sook Yoo; Kyung-Hye Hwang; Ok-Hee Cho; Sun-Hee Choi

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Yoo, Hwang, Cho, and Choi: Parenting Stress and Information Needs at the End of Treatment after Complete Remission of Leukemia

Original Article

Asian Oncology Nursing

Asian Oncology Nursing 2013; 13(1): 43-48.

Published online: 31 March 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5388/aon.2013.13.1.43

Parenting Stress and Information Needs at the End of Treatment after Complete Remission of Leukemia

Yang-Sook Yoo¹, Kyung-Hye Hwang², Ok-Hee Cho³, Sun-Hee Choi⁴

¹College of Nursing, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

²Department of Nursing, Suwon Science College, Hwaseong, Korea.

³College of Nursing, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.

⁴Department of Nursing, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Cho, Ok-Hee. College of Nursing, Jeju National University, 102 Jejudaehang-ro, Jeju 690-756, Korea. Tel: +82-64-754-3887, Fax: +82-64-702-2686, ohcho@jejunu.ac.kr

Received 21 January 2013 Accepted 17 March 2013

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Abstract

Purpose

This study has attempted to comparatively analyze the parenting stress that parents of a child with leukemia and their information needs at the end of treatment after complete remission (CR) of leukemia.

Methods

For data collection, a structured questionnaire survey on parenting stress and information needs was conducted using parents of children with leukemia visiting the Blood & Marrow Transplantation Center at C University Hospital in Seoul from August to December 2011. A total of 100 parents were examined.

Results

The parents of children under treatment after CR had greater parenting stress than parents of children whose treatment was finished. The parents of children whose treatment was finished had greater information needs than the parents of children whose treatment was ongoing. The differences had no statistical significance. In both groups, information needs about patients' growth development and school adjustment was high.

Conclusion

This study confirms that it is necessary to add information about daily life management, child's growth development, sociopsychological adaptation, school adjustment, and support of family, to the current symptom care-centered education program.

Keywords: Leukemia, Educational Needs Assessment, Parenting Education

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics of Subject (N=100)

^*Fisher's exact test.

ALL=Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; AML=Acute myeloblastic leukemia.

Table 2

Parenting Stress (N=100)

^*Mesures by ANCOVA with income as covariates.

Table 3

Information Needs of Parents (N=100)

^*Mesures by ANCOVA with income as covariates.

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