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.
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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*