Mothers' home health care work when their children have cancer.
The lack of research devoted to understanding the specific home health care work that mothers of children with cancer perform necessitates research in the area. This study examines the health care activities that mothers of children with cancer must assume in the home (eg, nursing care such as the administration of medicines, protecting the immune-suppressed child from concurrent illness, watching for side effects, record keeping, scheduling checkups and treatments). The implications for public policy of the extent and nature of home and lay health care in the hospital, clinic, and home are discussed.
Clarke
Juanne N
JN
Department of Sociology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. jclarke@wlu.ca.
Fletcher
Paula C
PC
Schneider
Margaret A
MA
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D009736:Nursing Process; D036301:Qualitative Research