TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping with pediatric leukemia
T2 - A two-year follow-up
AU - Kupst, Mary Jo
AU - Schulman, Jerome L.
AU - Maurer, Helen
AU - Honig, George
AU - Morgan, Elaine
AU - Fochtman, Dianne
N1 - Funding Information:
•The authors wish to thank Loy Thoma*, Lynne Tylke, Rhoda Kling, and Connie Stuetzer for their work as intervenors throughout the project. We are also grateful to Mary E. Mudd and Cathryn Richardson who, as research assistants, conducted interviews, and collected and analyzed data; and to Di Cross who volunteered her time to summarize the clinical data. Most of all, we are grateful to the families who participated in this project for their openness and acceptance of the project. This project wa» funded by Grant Number CA 19344 from the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and by the Margaret Etter Creche Learning Center. 2All correspondence should be addressed to Mary Jo Kupst, Department of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60614.
PY - 1984/6
Y1 - 1984/6
N2 - Sixty families of children with acute leukemia who participated in a prospective study of family coping were assessed at 2 years postdiagnosis. A wide variety of coping behaviors was found. According to ratings made by physicians, nurses, psychosocial staff, and themselves, most of the families were coping well. Parents' scores on the Summed Coping Scale of the CPI were generally within the normal range. Variables which correlated significantly with coping at 2 years postdiagnosis were quality of the marital and family relationship, previous coping with the illness, coping of other family members, adequacy of support system, lack of additional stresses, open communication within the family, and an attitude of living in the present. Although it had been effective for mothers in earlier phases of the illness, psychosocial intervention was not significantly related to coping at this time, when most of the children were in remission and doing well medically.
AB - Sixty families of children with acute leukemia who participated in a prospective study of family coping were assessed at 2 years postdiagnosis. A wide variety of coping behaviors was found. According to ratings made by physicians, nurses, psychosocial staff, and themselves, most of the families were coping well. Parents' scores on the Summed Coping Scale of the CPI were generally within the normal range. Variables which correlated significantly with coping at 2 years postdiagnosis were quality of the marital and family relationship, previous coping with the illness, coping of other family members, adequacy of support system, lack of additional stresses, open communication within the family, and an attitude of living in the present. Although it had been effective for mothers in earlier phases of the illness, psychosocial intervention was not significantly related to coping at this time, when most of the children were in remission and doing well medically.
KW - California Psychological-Inventory (CPI)
KW - Childhood cancer
KW - Coping behaviors
KW - Leukemia
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U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/9.2.149
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/9.2.149
M3 - Article
C2 - 6470899
AN - SCOPUS:0021440522
SN - 0146-8693
VL - 9
SP - 149
EP - 163
JO - Journal of pediatric psychology
JF - Journal of pediatric psychology
IS - 2
ER -
