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Abstract
Childhood cancer is considering the main killer of Egyptian children. It represents 10, 5 percent of the child population, compared to one percent in the USA. in children younger than 15 years in which diagnosis and treatment are more difficult. Parents are actively involved in the direct care of their ill child receiving cancer treatment by providing and monitoring therapy and by managing symptoms related to the therapy or to the disease itself.
Childhood cancer is related to a high morbidity rate, leading to an increased frequency of hospital admissions, and poor scholastic performance in addition to the physical, psychological, and social impact.Childhood cancer morbidity and mortality are still unacceptably high due to lack of knowledge, perception, and skills of parents who provide care for their children. Management of cancer and it treatment require open communication and cooperation between child, family and all health team who provide care for this child, so, the child can lead a relatively normal life.
The present study was aiming at assessing parents’ home care for their children receiving chemotherapy. This aim was achieved through assessing the parent’s knowledge about cancer diseases and chemotherapy, parent’s skills provided to their children, environment legibility to home care, measuring quality of life of their children and determining child’s health needs and problems related knowledge & practices of his parent for caring of their childhood cancer at home.
The study was conducted at day care and out patient clinic in Pediatric Hospital of Ain Shams University and Child Home. It started on June 2011 and was completed by December 2011.A purposive sampling technique was used to include 73 of parents’ and their children in the study.
Data was collected by using:
• A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the study group, parents’ knowledge regarding cancer disease and its treatment.
• Physical assessment sheet to assess the child health status with cancer and anthropometric measurement.
• Quality of life assessment sheet for the child (physical, emotional, social and school functioning.
• Child record analysis as regards: Diagnosis, treatments, duration of disease and investigations.
• Observational checklist to assess housing condition of the study group.
• Home care assessment list to assess parent’s practices regarding care of cancer children under going chemotherapy at home.