Research on consideration for children with cancer when providing cancer education

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K02763
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09060:Special needs education-related
• Research Institution: University of the Sacred Heart
• Principal Investigator: Ueda Seiji 聖心女子大学, 現代教養学部, 教授 (90193804)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: がん教育 / 配慮 / 小児がん / がんの当事者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When cancer education is provided at schools, various considerations are made for students who have cancer or their parents have cancer. Prior to the education, surveys of parents are sent out, students are contacted, and bulletins and notices from the school health office are used. However, there are also cases where no special consideration was given because the content was deemed necessary for school education and not to be detrimental to cancer patients or survivors, or because the parents of children with cancer responded that no special consideration was necessary. It is common for students to be informed at the start of class that they may leave from the situation. Individual guidance and follow-up were also effective, but in the future it would be necessary to develop more developmental stage-specific materials and teaching materials that can be used in such cases.

Free Research Field

学校保健・健康教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

全国的に学校におけるがん教育が実施されるようになってきた一方で、がん教育を実施する際に、児童生徒本人ががんの当事者であったりがん患者であったりした場合、家族にがん患者がいるあるいは家族をがんで亡くしたといった児童生徒に対しての配慮が必要であるとされながらも、配慮の実態や具体的にどのように配慮するとよいのかといったことは自明ではなかった。
本研究を参考にして、がん教育を実施する際の配慮を実際に行うことによって、より質の高い学校におけるがん教育を展開できるとともに、今後個別の配慮を行う際に有効となる資料や教材の開発の必要性が認識される。