Children of cancer patients: prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioral problems.

Background: Children of patients with cancer are at increased risk for developing emotional and behavioral problems. This study explored the prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioral problems in Children of cancer patients in a multisite research project.

Methods: A cross-sectional sample of N = 235 families was recruited simultaneously in 5 university medical centers.

A comparison of the emotional and behavioral problems of children of patients with cancer or a mental disorder and their association with parental quality of life.

Objective: To compare the emotional and behavioral problems of children of patients suffering from cancer or a mental disorder and their association with parental quality of life.

Methods: A total of 223 children from 136 families and their 160 parents were investigated from multiple perspectives in a cross-sectional study. The consistency of different adjustment reports between family members was examined.

[Parenthood and cancer: dyadic analysis of psychological distress and -health-related quality of life of cancer parents with minor children].

The purpose of this study was the analysis of psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of parents with minor children during curative resp. palliative treatment.Cross-sectional design with a sample of N=89 parent dyads.

"There is still so much ahead of us"-family functioning in families of palliative cancer patients.

Adopting a systems approach, parental cancer has its impact on patients, spouses, and dependent children. The purpose of the current study was to examine family functioning dependent on parental disease stage and on family member perspective in families of cancer patients with adolescent children. The cross-sectional study was conducted within a German multisite research project of families before their first child-centered counseling encounter.

Coping skills and mental health status in adolescents when a parent has cancer: a multicenter and multi-perspective study.

Objective: Parental cancer increases the risk of psychosocial problems in adolescents. We investigated the frequency and efficacy of adolescents' coping strategies and relationships between those strategies and mental health status. Age and gender differences regarding coping and mental health were also investigated.

Parental palliative cancer: psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life in adolescents participating in a German family counselling service.

Background: Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered. The objectives of this paper were a) to identify differences in psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents and young adults with parents suffering from palliative cancer or cancers in other disease stages, b) to relate psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life to adolescent coping, and c) to explore significant mediator and predictor variables.

Methods: Cross-sectional data were derived from a multi-site research study of families before child-centered counselling.

[Parental cancer--parents ways of coping, family functioning, and psychosocial adjustment of dependent children].

Children exposed to parental cancer have an increased risk of mental health problems. However, the parental illness itself and its features do not predict children's psychological adjustment. Parent- and family-related factors are more predictive for children's well-being and the incidence of psychopathological symptoms, respectively.

Minor children of palliative patients: a systematic review of psychosocial family interventions.

Although the whole family is affected by a parent's palliative disease, palliative care research does not yet routinely consider patients' minor children. Children's and adolescents' psychosocial functioning may be impaired during prolonged parental disease with poor prognosis. Therefore, more and more health care providers are establishing clinical initiatives for families of palliative patients with minor children.

Parental cancer: factors associated with children's psychosocial adjustment--a systematic review.

Objective: Children of cancer patients have an increased risk of developing psychosocial problems. But not all children are alike vulnerable to this stressful event. Thus, knowledge of risk and protective factors is required to design specific diagnostic tools and interventions for this vulnerable population.

[Evidence-based treatments in the rehabilitation of patients with depression--a literature review].

Background: In recent years, the importance of guidelines has increased continuously. This development also occurs in the field of rehabilitative health care, where process guidelines are being designed for various indicational groups to ensure quality standards and improvements.

Aim: The primary goal of this paper is to collect and evaluate the evidence for various treatment options for depressive disorders in order to establish a basis for the current development of a process guideline for the rehabilitation of patients with depressive disorders.