Receiving Chemotherapy: Parents' Perception

HOIY ANIGET IJNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOT OF NURSING

First Trimester School Year 2014 - ²⁰¹⁵

Distress among Children with Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy:

Parents' Perception

A

SPECTAL

PROIECT

Presented

to the

Graduate School

Holy Angel University

In Partial Fulfilbnent

of the Requirements for the

Degree

Master of

Science

in Nursing Major in Mother-Child Health l.Iursing

Byt

IIANNA}I CIARISE

C.

MATEO

Parents' Perception among Children Receiuing

HOLY GEL UNIVNRSITY

Distress among Children with ^Cancer

Receiving Chemotherapy:

Parents' Perception

Hannah Clarise C. Mateo

Abstract

The aim of the

study was

to identify to what

ercent parents perceive

the

distress experienced

by their children

undergoing chemotherapy. Descriptive and cross-sectional designs were used.

Convenience and snowball sample

of 42

parents comprised the respondents. Based on

the

results, the parents identified feeling worried about receiving the side effects, treatments and procedures as the most prevalent qrmptom ergerienced

by their

child while they found disappointment at missing activities

with

friends/peers

as the most treatment-related

s

nptom that bothers their child.

KEYWORDS: Distress, cancer, chemotherapy, parents, nursing