Stressors and Coping Strategies of Mothers Having Children with Cancer
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Stressors and Coping Strategies of Mothers Having Children with Cancer, YOUSR A. GAAFER, AMAL B. ABO EL-ATA and DOAA B.A. AKL
Abstract
Background: Cancer is a life threatening disease and considered the second cause of death after accident in children. There for, diagnosis and treatment of cancer children represents a highly stressful situation for mothers emotionally, physically, socially and financially; so that the mothers needed to cope effectively with illness of their children.
The present study aimed to assess stressors and coping strategies of mothers having children with cancer. A descriptive design was used, the study was carried out on (103) mothers with cancer children at the Oncology Institute in Mansoura City. The data were collected using three tools, the first tool was maternal knowledge and data about studied cancer children structure interview sheet, the second tool was stressors among mothers with cancer children structure interview sheet. The third tool is coping strategies scale. The results of this study revealed that most of mothers of studied cancer children (86.4%) suffered from psychological stressors followed by financial stressors, stressors related to treatment, physical stressors and social stressors (83.5%, 74. 74.8%, 52.4%, 5.8% respectively), most of them (68.9%) used emotional coping strategies and highest percentage of them (78.6%) used problem solving coping strategies.