TY - JOUR
T1 - The coping experience of parents of a child with retinoblastoma-malignant eye cancer
AU - Hamama-Raz, Yaira
AU - Rot, Ido
AU - Buchbinder, Eli
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - The authors explored 12 couples' coping with their children's diagnosis and treatment of retinoblastoma using a semistructured interview, with qualitative, descriptive, narrative-interpretative analysis. Findings showed that the parents' experienced increased distress with the physician's first suspicion that something was seriously wrong. Distress was ameliorated when they arrived at a specialty treatment center but increased as they tackled treatment decisions. Distress decreased again after they consented to enucleation but increased after hospital discharge. The parents strength, their ability together and individually, to separate and split between cognition and emotion contributed to coping. Parents need support from a multidisciplinary staff and parents who coped with retinoblastoma.
AB - The authors explored 12 couples' coping with their children's diagnosis and treatment of retinoblastoma using a semistructured interview, with qualitative, descriptive, narrative-interpretative analysis. Findings showed that the parents' experienced increased distress with the physician's first suspicion that something was seriously wrong. Distress was ameliorated when they arrived at a specialty treatment center but increased as they tackled treatment decisions. Distress decreased again after they consented to enucleation but increased after hospital discharge. The parents strength, their ability together and individually, to separate and split between cognition and emotion contributed to coping. Parents need support from a multidisciplinary staff and parents who coped with retinoblastoma.
KW - cancer
KW - distress
KW - oncology
KW - parental coping
KW - retinoblastoma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856915745&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07347332.2011.633977
DO - 10.1080/07347332.2011.633977
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C2 - 22269074
AN - SCOPUS:84856915745
SN - 0734-7332
VL - 30
SP - 21
EP - 40
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
IS - 1
ER -