Psychosocial functioning of young adolescent and adult survivors of childhood cancer

Servitzoglou, Marina; Papadatou, Danai; Tsiantis, I.; Vasilatou-Kosmidis, Helen

doi:10.1007/s00520-007-0278-z

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“…Consistent with previous research (Boman and Bodegård, 2004;Brown et al, 2008;Eiser et al, 1997;FelderPuig et al, 1998;Gerber et al, 2006;Gerhardt et al, 2007;Servitzoglou et al, 2008), survivors of our study also perceived cancer as an obstacle in the making of their educational plans. Our study emphasizes the role of immediate and medium-term objective effects of cancer on these feelings of work limitations, as most of the survivors reporting cancer as an obstacle had to face the physical sequelae of cancer before they reached the age of 20, often because of retinoblastoma or osteosarcoma, cancers that could both lead to amputation.…”

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“…They showed that young survivors could report a negative impact of cancer on their vocational aspirations (Badell et al, 1998;Gerber et al, 2006;Servitzoglou et al, 2008), lower professional expectations or less concrete plans for the future (Boman and Bodegård, 2004;Gerhardt et al, 2007;Servitzoglou et al, 2008), or a change in their career plans resulting from cancer (Felder-Puig et al, 1998;Servitzoglou et al, 2008). However, most of these studies were conducted during the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood, with young survivors who had not necessarily completed their education, lacking perspective in their career and in their life course.…”

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Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters

Dumas

Cailbault

Perrey

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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With the increase in survival from childhood cancer, research has increasingly focused on the educational and professional achievements of childhood cancer survivors. Yet, if large-scale studies provide an acute description of the current situation of childhood cancer survivors, little is known about their trajectories and the social processes shaping these trajectories. Using a qualitative methodology, drawing from a life course perspective, this study sought to describe the role of childhood cancer and its side effects in educational trajectories, as perceived by the participants. We investigated related processes of social adjustment to cancer, that is to say, choices or decisions that survivors related to the illness in the making of their career plans. Eighty long-term French childhood cancer survivors participating in the Euro2K longitudinal study were interviewed through in-depth, face-to-face interviews undertaken in 2011-2012. There were various types of impact described by respondents of the diagnosis of cancer on their trajectories. These varied according to gender. In women, childhood cancer tended to result in poor educational achievement, or in steering the individual towards a health care or child care occupation. This was justified by a desire to return the support that had been offered to them as patients. In men, however, childhood cancer led to a shift in career plans, because of physical sequelae, or because of concerns about their future health. Paradoxically, this limitation had a positive impact in their occupational achievement, as most of these men disregarded blue-collar jobs and chose more qualified white-collar occupations. Overall, findings suggest that childhood cancer influenced educational trajectories and, thus, socioeconomic status in adulthood, through mechanisms embedded in gender norms. These mechanisms could explain gender inequalities in educational achievement after childhood cancer reported in large-scale cohort studies.

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Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters

Dumas

Cailbault

Perrey

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…A last study found that the full-time employment of childhood cancer survivors was lower than national norms (US), except among survivors of hematologic malignancies who had not received radiation therapy [18]. A part of explanation of our result could be that these young adults who survived childhood AL might be particularly motivated to work and accept a job, even unstable, when their health allows [42]. Another explanation could be that employers would be more reluctant to give cancer survivors a permanent contract.…”

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Employment in French young adult survivors of childhood leukemia: an LEA study (for Leucemies de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent—childhood and adolescent leukemia)

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“…It has good construct and content validity and has been successfully used in older cancer patients and AYA survivors of childhood cancer [26][27][28]. It also has excellent reliability in adolescents with cancer, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.89 [9].…”

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The relationship between unmet needs and distress amongst young people with cancer

Dyson

Thompson

Palmer

et al. 2011

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Lower levels of distress and unmet psychological needs were related to the few participants (17%) in this study who were pre-treatment, when distress was most likely. However, physical needs and information needs, which are almost inevitable throughout treatment and beyond, were more important predictors of distress. Further exploration must consider the psychosocial difficulties underlying this association and the needs of AYA at transitions between critical periods in their cancer journey (i.e., upon diagnosis, during treatment, etc.).

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Psychosocial functioning of young adolescent and adult survivors of childhood cancer

Cited by 54 publications

References 31 publications

Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters

Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters

Employment in French young adult survivors of childhood leukemia: an LEA study (for Leucemies de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent—childhood and adolescent leukemia)

The relationship between unmet needs and distress amongst young people with cancer

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