Double bereavement, mental health consequences and support needs of children and young adults-When a divorced parent dies.

Aims And Objectives: To explore how children and young adults from divorced families experience double bereavement when they lose a divorced parent with cancer and how the double bereavement influences their mental health consequences and need of support.

Background: Children and young people who are confronted with the cancer and death of a parent is a highly stressful life event, which is associated with an increased risk of mental health problems, especially when children experience divorced parental cancer and death.

Design: Participant observations and interviews with a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach and COREQ standards for reporting qualitative research.

Cardiovascular and electroencephalographic responses to purposeful versus nonpurposeful activities in children.

To discern effects of purposefulness on cardiovascular and neural responses, heart rate and electroencephalographic recordings were taken in 31 children performing purposeful and nonpurposeful activities of equal duration and cardiopulmonary workload. Heart rate increased from resting levels during both purposeful (p = .001) and nonpurposeful (p = .