title: The challenge of quality care for family caregivers in pediatric cancer care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the needs and potential interventions for parental caregivers of children with cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published articles between 2002 and 2012.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In general, parents do adjust and cope with their child's cancer, but a significant majority experience post-traumatic stress symptoms. Families also report that the shift to parenting a child with cancer is very disruptive to identity and family structure and can cause negative outcomes for mothers, father, and siblings. There is growing evidence of post-traumatic growth and resilience in parents of children with cancer. Recent studies have suggested that targeted interventions may relieve distress.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses can support families in the difficult transition to having a child with cancer and may be able to intervene to reduce long-term distress in families.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, Austin, TX, USA. barbarajones@mail.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Barbara L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology