Caregiver's perspective on psychosocial issues of paediatric cancer patients during COVID 19 pandemic lockdown. Issue 6 (24th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gopalakrishnan, Vidhya; Veeraiah, Surendran; Chidambaram, Sundaramoorthy; Sudhakar, Revathy; Radhakrishnan, Venkatraman
• Is Part Of: Psycho-oncology. Volume 31:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 1050
• Page End: 1053
• Publication Date: 2022-05-24
• Subjects: COVID‐19 -- lockdown -- paediatric cancer -- psycho‐oncology -- psychosocial issues -- treatment interruption; Cancer -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; Cancer -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Neoplasms -- psychology -- Periodicals; 616.9940019
• DOI: 10.1002/pon.5967
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1057-9249

Abstract

Key points: The unprecedented pandemic crisis has caused serious changes in the medical care for cancer patients, thereby mandating research studies to focus and understand the psychosocial issues faced by paediatric cancer patients during the pandemic lockdown in India. Paediatric cancer patients irrespective of diagnosis and treatment status were assessed for psychosocial issues ( N = 103) and distress ( n = 74). Caregivers were chosen as the primary respondents except for distress score in order to obtain data with better clarity and comprehension. The data was summarized using descriptive statistics; chi square analysis was adopted to find the association between psychosocial issues and outcome variables; multivariate logistic regression was used to find the predictors of treatment status and distress. Paediatric cancer patients experienced significant physical and psychological issues pertaining to the unprecedented pandemic lockdown and its associated changes with the cancer treatment and interruptions.