The purpose of our research was to evaluate the attitude to face the life cycle and the impact that the experience of childhood leukemia may have had in a group of adolescents who had the disease cured. A questionnaire was administered at the Pediatric Hematology Center, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy, to all former patients age 12 to 20 years and off therapy from leukemia for at least 2 years (total of 116 adolescents) during 1997; 70 patients responded to the mailing and a comparison group of 70 secondary-school students was investigated. The two groups were matched as closely as possible on key characteristics (age, gender, socio-economic level of families, education and occupation of the parents, and geographic area of residence). The Offer Self-Image Questionnaire was the instrument used in this study. Overall, the teenagers in whom leukemia was cured showed a more positive and mature self-image (psychologic, social, attitude toward family, and coping) compared with the student group (statistical evidence, P < 0.05). An effective psychosocial support for patients and their families during their treatment, in addition to medical therapy, is strongly recommended. The majority of survivors of childhood cancer grow successfully without serious psychologic sequelae.
This research detects the most common words recurring in 326 adolescents' dream language. The analyzed dreams have been previously recorded and then transcribed. Grouping words, we obtained the frequency of the main parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns). Among the nouns, far more frequently represented are terms that refer to important objects of an affective relation. Other significant nouns relate to objects linked to both familial and extra-familial environments. Words related to family relations declined in frequency as age increased and were substituted by terms that refer to relations amongfriends and to the external world and its objects. Some of these results can be usefully compared with the conclusions derivedfrom the application of other methods of content analysis. This method using dream language analysis could be applied to research concerning dream content, also through specific dictionaries (groups of words defined and classified in relation to a certain theme).
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