Structure of meaning making among parents experienced children's challenge with cancer

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06561
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: IRIE Wataru 東北文化学園大学, 医療福祉学部, 助手 (60757649)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 小児がん / 親 / 心的外傷後成長 / Posttraumatic Growth / 慢性疾患 / 共分散構造分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The　purpose of this project is to build the early start psycho-social care system for parents of children with cancer. The survey to evaluated the role of cognitive processing, that is, re-examination of core beliefs that are often challenged by experiencing a potentially traumatic life event and ruminative thoughts, in post-traumatic growth (PTG) had been done as the first step of this project. We compared the model between parents of children with cancer and parents of children with chronic disease to determine how the role of cognitive processing in PTG is different depending on the children’s illness. The results indicated parents of children with cancer might have original process to reach PTG.

Free Research Field

小児がん看護