Uncertainty and Personal Growth Through Positive Coping Strategies Among Chinese Parents of Children With Acute Leukemia.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Having a child in the family with acute leukemia (AL) is a challenge for the parents and can trigger parental uncertainty. Through positive coping with uncertainty, parents can demonstrate positive psychological changes, including higher adaptability. OBJECTIVES:The purposes of this study were to measure uncertainty, coping strategies, and growth through uncertainty (GTU) and explore the relationships among them in parents of children with AL in China. Related factors of parental uncertainty were also explored. METHODS:A descriptive and correlative design was used. Ninety-five parents of children with AL participated. Parental uncertainty, coping, and GTU were measured by the translated Chinese versions of scales originally developed by Mishel, McCubbin, and Mishel. RESULTS:Parental uncertainty was found to be prevalent in parents of children with AL in China. It did not have a direct impact on GTU, but rather was mediated through coping. Coping was negatively associated with unpredictability (r = -0.225, P < .05), while positively associated with GTU (r = 0.391, P < .01). CONCLUSIONS:Through reordering of priorities of life events, parents acquired GTU during the process of their child's illness and treatment. Use of positive coping strategies by parents could help them to manage the stress associated with the unpredictability of child's illness and to promote a healthy maintenance of GTU. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE:Nurses could assume a more active role in identifying sources and level of parental uncertainty, encouraging parents to stay optimistic, and promoting change in perceptions of uncertainty from danger to opportunity.

journal_name

Cancer Nurs

journal_title

Cancer nursing

authors

He S,You LM,Zheng J,Bi YL

doi

10.1097/NCC.0000000000000279

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-05-01 00:00:00

pages

205-12

issue

3

eissn

0162-220X

issn

1538-9804

pii

00002820-201605000-00007

journal_volume

39

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