خلاصة:
Objective: Anticipatory grief is one of the most prominent psychological phenomena in mothers of children diagnosed with cancer. The aim of present study was to compare anticipatory grief of mothers of children diagnosed with cancer within the previous 1 month and those whose children were diagnosed 6-12 months earlier.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 70 mothers living in Mashhad; the children of 35 mothers were diagnosed with cancer within the previous 1 month, and the children of 35 mothers were diagnosed with cancer 6 to 12 months earlier. The instrument was Marwit and Meuser Caregiver Inventory: Childhood Cancer. For data analysis in addition to the procedures of descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation), inferential statistics (MANOVA) has been used.
Results: The results of MANOVA revealed that there is a significant difference between the anticipatory grief of mothers of children diagnosed with cancer within the previous 1 month and those diagnosed 6-12 months earlier.
Conclusion: Mothers of children recently diagnosed with cancer need to receive adequate support interventions.
ملخص الجهاز:
Research Paper: Contribution of Time Since Diagnosis in Anticipatory Grief of Mothers of Children Diagnosed With Cancer: A Descriptive Study in Iran Mohsen Dehghani Neyshabouri1*/, Zahra Tabibi2/, Aida Maghsoudi3/, Behnaz Shahbakhsh4 / 1.
Contribution of Time Since Di-agnosis in Anticipatory Grief of Mothers of Children Diagnosed With Cancer: A Descriptive Study in Iran.
The aim of present study was to compare anticipatory grief of mothers of children diagnosed with cancer within the previous 1 month and those whose children were diagnosed 6-12 months earlier.
Results: The results of MANOVA revealed that there is a significant difference between the anticipatory grief of mothers of children diagnosed with cancer within the previous 1 month and those diagnosed 6-12 months earlier.
Currently, approximately 80% of children with cancer in the UK survived for at least 5 years after di-agnosis (Childhood Cancer Research Group, 2016), and * Corresponding Author: Mohsen Dehghani Neyshabouri, PhD Candidate Address: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Univariate test of anticipatory grief scores and subscales among the mothers of newly diagnosed children and those diagnosed 6-12 months earlier (View the image of this page) The findings on the acute and intensive effect of child cancer diagnosis on mothers are consistent with the findings of Wong and Chan (2006), Moore, Talwar and Moxley-Haegert (2015) and Al-Gamal and Long (2010).
In summary, the results of this study revealed that mothers of children recently diagnosed with cancer reported more anticipatory grief of those whose children were diagnosed 6-12 months earlier.