Volume 28, Issue 3 (7-2020)                   Avicenna J Nurs Midwifery Care 2020, 28(3): 171-180 | Back to browse issues page

XML Persian Abstract Print

Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:
Ghaljaei F, Fooladi S, Jamali A, Mahmoodi N, Zarei B. The Effect of Peer Support of Mothers of Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on Quality of Life of Patients. Avicenna J Nurs Midwifery Care 2020; 28 (3) :171-180
URL: http://nmj.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-2122-en.html
The Effect of Peer Support of Mothers of Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on Quality of Life of Patients
Fereshteh Ghaljaei1 , Sedighe Fooladi2 , Azam Jamali * 3, Nasrin Mahmoodi4 , Bahare Zarei5
1- Associate Professor, Community Nursing Research Center and Pediatric Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
2- MSc in Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
3- MSc in Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran , jamaliazam94@gmail.com
4- Instructor, Community Nursing Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
5- Instructor, Department of Nursing Education, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
Abstract:   (3906 Views)
Background & Aim: Caring for a child with cancer can be deeply frustrating for parents with high levels of anxiety and psychological distress. Parents who suffer from high psychological stress have poorer performance in the family and health-related quality of life in their children is significantly lower. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of peer support in reducing levels of parental psychological distress. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of peer support of mothers of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) on quality of life of patients.
Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study which was performed on 74 mothers of children with ALL hospitalized in Hematology ward of Ali ibn Abi Talib Hospital in Zahedan in 2017. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants in accordance with the inclusion criteria. The subjects were randomly assigned to the control and intervention groups. Peer group training was then conducted for the intervention group for five days. KID-KINDL questionnaire to parent report was completed before intervention, immediately and two months after intervention for both intervention and control groups. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential tests at the significant level P-value<0.05.
Results:   Before intervention, the mean score of total quality of life and its dimensions were not significantly different between the two groups (P>0.05). Analysis of variance with repeated measures indicated that the mean scores of total quality of life and its dimensions in the intervention group were significantly increased over time (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Using peer support program for mothers of children with ALL can improve the quality of life of children. Therefore, it is recommended to use this method alone or in combination with other methods to improve the quality of life of children with ALL.
Keywords: Support, Peer group, Mothers, Children, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Quality of life
Persian Full-Text [PDF 526 kb]   (1233 Downloads) |   |   Extended Abstract (HTML)  (889 Views)  
Type of Study: Systematic Review | Subject: Nursing
Received: 2020/01/3 | Accepted: 2020/03/25 | Published: 2020/05/30
References
1. American Cancer Society. Cancer facts and figures [Internet]. Atlanta, USA: Author; 2015 [cited 2015 Oct 15]. Available from: http://www.cancer.org/acs/ groups/content/@editorial/documents/document/acspc-044552.pdf
2. Mojen LK, Rassouli M, Eshghi P, Zendedel K, Sari AA, Karimooi MH, Tahmasebi M, Farahani AS. Pediatric Palliative Care in Iran: Applying Regionalization of Health Care Systems. Asia Pacific J Cancer Prev. 2018; 19(5):1303.
3. Pesola F, Ferlay J, Sasieni P. Cancer incidence in English children, adolescents and young people: past trends and projections to 2030. Br J Cancer. 2017; 117(12):1865. [DOI:10.1038/bjc.2017.341] [PMID] [PMCID]
4. Ward E, DeSantis C, Robbins A, Kohler B, Ahmedin J. Childhood and adolescent cancer statistics. 2014. CA Cancer J Clin. 2014; 64(2):83-103. [DOI:10.3322/caac.21219] [PMID]
5. Hunger SP, Lu X, Devidas M, Devidas M, Camitta BM, Gaynon PS, et al. Improved survival for children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between 1990 and 2005: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2012; 30:1663-9. [DOI:10.1200/JCO.2011.37.8018] [PMID] [PMCID]
6. Yariş N, Yavuz MN, Yavuz AA, Ökten A. Assessment of quality of life in pediatric cancer patients at diagnosis and during therapy. Turk J Cancer. 2001; 31(4):139-49.
7. Bradlyn AS, Ritchey AK, Harris CV, Moore IM, O'Brien RT, Parsons SK, et al. Quality of life research in pediatric oncology. Cancer. 1996; 78(6):1330-2. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960915)78:6<1333::AID-CNCR24>3.0.CO;2-0 [DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960915)78:63.0.CO;2-0]
8. Mounir G M, Abolfotouh M A. Assessment of healthrelated quality of life among school children with cancer in Alexandria. J Egypt Public Health Assoc. 2007; 82(3,4):219-38.
9. Eiser C, Eiser JR, Stride CB. Quality of life in children newly diagnosed with cancer and their mothers. Health Qual Life Outcom. 2005; 3: 29 [DOI:10.1186/1477-7525-3-29] [PMID] [PMCID]
10. Matziou V, Perdikaris P, Galanis P, Dousis E, Tzoumakas K. Evaluating de-pression in a sample of children and adolescents with cancer in Greece. Int Nurs Rev. 2008; 55:314-9. [DOI:10.1111/j.1466-7657.2008.00606.x] [PMID]
11. Sung L, Klaassen R, Dix D, Pritchard S, Yanofsky R, Dzolganovski B, et al. Identification of pediatric cancer patients with poor quality of life. Br J Cancer. 2009; 100:82-8. [DOI:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604826] [PMID] [PMCID]
12. WHO. Palliative Care. 2018. Availbale online at: http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/palliative-care
13. Gielen AC, McDonnell KA, Wu AW, O'Campo P, Faden R. Quality of life among women living with HIV: the importance violence, social support, and self-care behaviors. Soc Sci Med. 2001; 52(2):315-22. [DOI:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00135-0]
14. DeGenova MK, Rice FP. Intimate relationships, marriages, & families. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill. 2002.
15. Polinsky ML, Pion-Berlin L, Williams S, Long T, Wolf AM. Preventing child abuse and neglect: a national evaluation of Parents Anonymous groups. Child Welfare. 2010; 89(6):43-62.
16. Scharer, K. Internet social support for parents: The state of science. J Child Adol Psych Nursing. 2005; 18(1):26-35. [DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6171.2005.00007.x] [PMID]
17. Davis-Groves S, Barfield ST, McCave E, Corrigan SK. Parent support: Building structures that support and assist children. School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas; 2007. Retrieved from http://www.socwel.ku.edu
18. Hartman AF, Radin MB, McConnell B. Parent-to-parent support: a critical component of health care services for families. Issu Compr Pediat Nurs. 1992; 15(1):55-67. [DOI:10.3109/01460869209078240] [PMID]
19. Rosenberg AR, Dussel V, Kang T, Geyer JR, Gerhardt CA, Feudtner C, et al. Psychological distress in parents of children with advanced cancer. JAMA Pediatr. 2013; 167(6):537-43. [DOI:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.628] [PMID] [PMCID]
20. Lown EA, Phillips F, Schwartz LA, Rosenberg AR, Jones B. Psychosocial follow-up in survivorship as a standard of care in pediatric oncology. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015; 62(suppl 5): S514-84. [DOI:10.1002/pbc.25783] [PMID] [PMCID]
21. Ireys, HT, Chernoff R, Stein R, DeVet KA, Silver E. Outcomes of community-based family-to-family support: Lessons learned from a decade of randomized trials. Children's Services: Soc Policy, Res Practice. 2001; 4(4):201-6. [DOI:10.1207/S15326918CS0404_04]
22. Sharif F, Abshorshori N, Tahmasebi S, Hazrati M, Zare N, Masoumi S. The effect of peer-led education on the life quality of mastectomy patients referred to breast cancer-clinics in Shiraz, Iran 2009. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010; 8(1):74. [DOI:10.1186/1477-7525-8-74] [PMID] [PMCID]
23. Ravens-Sieberer U, Bullinger M. Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: first psychometric and content analytical results. Qual Life Res. 1998;7(5):399-407 [DOI:10.1023/A:1008853819715] [PMID]
24. Valizadeh L, Hosseinpour-Feizi AA, Joonbakhsh. F. Comparing the quality of life in children with cancer in Tabriz Children Medical and Training Center reported by themselves and their parents, 2013. J Clin Nurs Midwifery. 2014; 3(1):1-8.
25. Ramacher D. Parent peer support: impact on children with mental illness. J Student Res. 2011: 1-20.
26. Singer GH, Marquis J, Powers LK, Blanchard L, Divenere N, Santelli B, et al. A multi-site evaluation of parent to parent programs for parents of children with disabilities. J Early Interven. 1999; 22(3):217-29. [DOI:10.1177/105381519902200305]
27. Solomon M, Pistrang N, Barker C. The benefits of mutual support groups for parents of children with disabilities. America J Community Psych. 2001; 29(1):113-32. [DOI:10.1023/A:1005253514140] [PMID]
28. Singer GH, Hornby G, Park J, Wang M, Xu J. Parent to parent peer support across the Pacific Rim. J Int Spec Need Edu. 2012; 15(2):89-106. [DOI:10.9782/2159-4341-15.2.89]
29. Han HR. Korean mothers' psychosocial adjustment to their children's cancer. J Advanc Nurs. 2003; 44(5):499-506. [DOI:10.1046/j.0309-2402.2003.02833.x] [PMID]
30. Bracke P, Christiaens W, Verhaeghe M. Self‐esteem, self‐efficacy, and the balance of peer support among persons with chronic mental health problems. J Appl Soc Psych. 2008; 38(2):436-59. [DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00312.x]
Add your comments about this article : Your username or Email:
CAPTCHA
Send email to the article author

Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

© 2024 CC BY-NC 4.0 | Avicenna Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Care

Designed & Developed by : Yektaweb