Posttraumatic Growth and Its Dimensions in the Mothers of Children with Cancer.
Mina Behzadi, Maryam Rassouli, Leila Khanali Mojen and 2 others
PMID 30035137WHAT IT FOUND
Mothers' mean posttraumatic growth score was 62.4±18.9 on a 0 to 105 scale, with spiritual changes highest and new opportunities lowest.
Education level related to appreciation of life; mothers of male children scored higher in personal strength.
Key findings
01Mothers' mean posttraumatic growth score was 62.4±18.9 on a 0 to 105 scale, where higher scores indicate greater growth.
02Spiritual changes had the highest mean item score, 3.59, and new opportunities had the lowest, 2.59.
03Mother's education was significantly related to appreciation of life, r=0.23, P<0.01, and child's gender was significantly related to personal strength, r=0.19, P<0.05, with mothers of male children scoring higher.
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What it does not show
Convenient sampling may limit how representative the 180 mothers were. The tools were self-report, so mothers may have answered according to social norms rather than reality. Coping strategies for the child's illness and timing of awareness of the diagnosis were not measured. The study was descriptive, so associations may be due to intermediary or confounding factors rather than cause. No treatment or nursing intervention was tested.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that a child's cancer causes beneficial growth or that nurses can promote growth. The study measured self-reported scores at one time and did not test an intervention.