Strained finances and material hardships are among significant psychosocial stressors facing African American parents of children with cancer, according to study results presented at Oncology Nursing Society Congress.
Systematic identification of material needs and actions to reduce stressors could help ease psychosocial distress among this population, researchers concluded.
Despite availability and efficacy of multiple psychosocial interventions over the past 2 to 3 decades for parents of children with cancer, most studies include inadequate samples of African American parents, Ijeoma Julie