The biopsychosocial condition of childhood cancer survivors in the transition towards adult care: a national survey from the joint pediatric and adult transition care group
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Giulia Zucchetti
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Simona Bellini
Abstract
Background
To provide successful transfer from childhood to adult-oriented healthcare is one of the priorities of survivorship care plans.
Purpose
This study describes adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors’ conditions at the moment of the transition to adult care deepening their biological, psychological, social and assistant state and their associations with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics.
Methods
A biopsychosocial check-list in four health domains (biological, psychological, social and assistant) was filled in by healthcare professionals (oncologists, psychologists, social workers and nurses) through qualitative interviews and clinical observations of 79 survivors (58% boys; Mage = 20 years old) at the moment of the transition from the Pediatric Oncology Unit to the Transition Unit of the Childhood Cancer Survivors.
Results
At the moment of transition, 38% of survivors showed a positive condition in all the four health domains without any kind of impairment. Biological (37%) and psychological areas (44%) were found to be those with major incidence of impairments. Association phenomena were found between psychological and social condition (p < 0.05) and between social and assistant condition (p < 0.05). Biological condition was also significantly associated with the type of cancer (χ = 6,2414, p < 0.05).
Conclusion
Although many survivors entered in adult care system without any impairment, the biopsychosocial approach highlighted that there is a presence of impairments in at least one of the main health domains.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Dr. Tatiana Moda for language assistance and to Dr. Filippo Candela, PhD, for data analysis assistance.
Compliance with ethical standards
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Funding: None.
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Conflict of interest statement: None.
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Ethical approval: All procedures performed in the study involving human subjects were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (Prot. N° 0018330 A/2.4.8). This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals participants included in the study.
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