Types and Influence of Social Support on School Engagement of Young Survivors of Leukemia.

The present study aimed to describe and explore the influence of social support on the school engagement of young survivors of pediatric leukemia. Fifty-three young Quebecers, previously diagnosed and treated for leukemia, completed a questionnaire measuring their school engagement and participated in an interview focusing on the support offered by four groups of relations with regard to school: parents, siblings, friends, and other nonprofessional relations. The interview responses revealed that parents were perceived to be the primary source of informational and emotional support, with support also provided to a lesser extent by friends, siblings, and members of the extended family.

Housing priorities of persons with a spinal cord injury and their household members.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the housing priorities of families living with persons with a spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: A new tool, the psycho-environmental housing priorities (PEHP), was developed following the principles of Q-methodology and based on the psycho-environmental model. The PEHP includes 48 items concerning housing needs that were presented to 29 persons with SCI and to 30 of their household members to determine the more important needs in their home.

[Reappropriation of residential space of families with a person with a spinal cord injury].

Background: To date, we do not know how home adaptations transform the residential experience of people with disabilities and their families.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the residential reappropriation process of people with spinal cord injury and their families.

Method: Interviews with 31 people with spinal cord injuries and 31 family members focused on the adaptations, satisfaction with the adaptations, territorial behaviour at home, and family functioning.

Access to breast cancer screening programs for women with disabilities.

Background: The goal of this study was to identify measures to facilitate access to the Quebec Breast Cancer Screening Program for women with activity limitations, considering the barriers to screening uptake in that population.

Methods: The study was carried out in three stages. First, 124 semi-structured interviews were conducted in five regions of Quebec with five groups of key informants.

Conception of wellness in families with a diabetic child.

Focusing on wellness and adopting perspectives from positive and perceptual psychology, perceptions about health and illness were studied in 55 families with diabetic children, their siblings (8-17 years old) and mothers. Individual interviews were conducted on definitions of wellness, rationale for children's self-evaluation of wellness, consequences of wellness and definition of diabetes. Content analysis revealed that respondents have a comprehensive definition of wellness focusing on adaptation and performance.

[Inner city children's perceptions about well-being].

This study, carried out from the point of view of positive psychology, gave inner-city children an opportunity to express themselves. Through interviews, they shared their perceptions of psychological well-being in the context of their everyday life and the contribution of a community agency towards their well-being. The support of others appeared as a fundamental aspect of their perceptions of psychological well-being, while the enrichment provided by the agency also emerged from the data.