Impact of a parent's cancer on adult children: role and relationship issues.
The diagnosis and initial treatment of a parent for cancer is a highly stressful process that generates a variety of concerns for adult children. This study describes the initial effect of a parent's cancer on adult children. Adult children's concerns about role and relationship issues emerged as major themes in the content analysis of their interviews.
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
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D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*