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Costs: Kit – $227.00, Answer sheets – $80.00, Profile forms – $28.00,

Booklet – $74.00, Manual – $80.00, Continuing education materials – $26.00.

References:

  • PAR inc. Parenting stress index, fourth edition. 2012. http://www4.parinc.com/Products/Product.aspx?ProductID=PSI-4, Accessed March 6, 2016.
  • Parenting stress index (PSI-4), fourth edition. 2015. http://www.wpspublish.com/store/p/2925/parenting-stress-index-psi-4-fourth-edition, Accessed March 6, 2016.

 

Research Article:

Sherief, L. M., Kamal, N. M., Abdalrahman, H. M., Youssef, D. M., Alhady, M. A. A., Ali, A. S., … & Hashim, H. M. (2015). Psychological Impact of Chemotherapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on Patients and Their Parents. Medicine94(51).

The purpose of this observational study was to assess the self-esteem of children undergoing chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to assess the psychological status of their parents. The Rosenberg self-esteem scale was used to assess the psychological status of the children while the parenting stress index (PSI) was used to assess the parents. This study included 178 children who were receiving chemotherapy treatment for ALL and their parents. A cross sectional study was performed over a period of 2 years. Inclusion criteria: age 6-18, conscious, able to communicate, in complete remission, in maintenance phase of chemotherapy, and same maintenance protocol. Children and parents with a history of psychiatric illness were excluded. The results of this study indicated that 84.83% of the patients had low self-esteem. Long duration of disease was found to be the factor that most negatively impacted scores. Higher PSI scores were significantly associated with low sense of competence, negative attachment to their children, feeling of high restriction, high depression, poor relation to spouse, high social isolation, low acceptability for the parents’ domains. Higher PSI scores were significantly associated with low distraction, negative parents’ reinforcement, and low acceptability for the child’s domains. In conclusion, chemotherapy for ALL as impacts on both the parents and the child undergoing the treatment. This study shows that this treatment causes a decrease in self-esteem in the patients and an increase in stress for the parents.