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- Mothers of children with cancer often struggle with coping, and there's limited research on interventions targeting their challenges.
- The study involved 20 mothers undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy over 8 weeks, with various psychological assessments conducted before and after the intervention.
- Results indicated that the mothers initially experienced mild to moderate anxiety but showed significant improvement in anxiety levels and coping strategies after the intervention, highlighting the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral techniques.
Article Abstract
Background: Mothers of children diagnosed with cancer are found to have coping difficulties in various studies. Most of the studies were done on parents after their child has been newly diagnosed with malignancy, and very few studies were done on coping skills intervention. Hence, this study has been done to assess the impact of cognitive behavioural intervention on caregiver burden in mothers of children diagnosed with cancer.
Methods: Twenty mothers coming to the outpatient department of paediatric oncology from 01 September 2018 to 30 April 2019 were enrolled for the study. The participants were administered General Health Questionnaire, Brief Coping Operation Preference Enquiry Scale, Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-21 (CISS-21) Scale. Sixteen sessions of cognitive behavioural intervention were given over 8 weeks to all the participants. Reassessment was done after 3 months by use of the above mentioned scales.
Results: Participants' mean anxiety score was 49.40 (standard deviation [SD] ±8.89). They used adaptive (active coping and positive reframing) more than the maladaptive (denial and self-blame) coping strategies. Task- and emotion-focused coping mean score on CISS-21 revealed 19.25 (SD ±6.20) and 18.90 (SD ±5.76), respectively. Reassessment after cognitive behavioural intervention revealed statistically significant improvement in maladaptive coping styles, mean anxiety index score, avoidance, and emotion-focused coping.
Conclusion: The study has revealed mild to moderate anxiety and the use of both adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies by participants. There is statistically significant improvement in anxiety, maladaptive coping strategies with cognitive behavioural intervention.
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