Factors affecting the level of coping abilities of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy in Philippine General Hospital

Date of Completion

2002

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

Chemotherapy, Adaptation Psychological, Children

Abstract

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY A. GENERAL To determine the factors affecting the level of coping ablility of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy. B. SPECIFIC 1. To determine the profile of the parents with children undergoing chemotherapy in terms of age, educational attainment, family income, religion and length of treatment, number of children, history of cancer in the family, and social support. 2. To determine the level of coping abilities of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy? 3. To determine if there are significant difference in the level of coping ability when respondents are grouped according to age, family income, educational attainment, length of treatment, religion, number of children, history of cancer in the family,and social support? SCOPE AND LIMITATION: This study endeavors to obtain information regarding the level of coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy. It does not cover parents whose children are afflicted with other diseases. The data gathered are quantitative in nature and were based on the responses of the respondents to the questionnaire on the coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy. The said tool was adopted and modified from Kummer et al (1999). In this study the following factors such as severity of illness, type of cancer and the profile of the school age children will not be included in the study because of difficulty retrieving adequate information and the focus of the study is on the factors that mostly affects the coping abilities of parents. The variables included in the study were the following age, educational attainment, length of treatment, family income, religion, number of children, history of cancer in the family and social support. The level of coping ablilty will be determine based on the responses of parents and will be categorize descriptively using the scale of: (a) 3.00-4.00 high level of coping ability (b) 2.00-2.99 modreate level of coping ability (c) 1.00-1.99 low level of coping ability. Furthermore, the study involves only parents with children who are patients in the Philippine General Hospital undergoing chemotherapy. MAJOR FINDINGS: 1. From the 60 respondents, most of the respondent belong to the age group of 18-39 years old (82%) than those who belongs to the age group of 40-50 years old (18%). Most of the respondents graduated from high school (68%), than those who graduated from elementary (17%), from a vocational course (8%), from college (7%). Most of the respondents have a family income of 21,000-30,000 (35%), than those who have a family income of 11,000-20,000 (32%), below 10,000 (27%), above 31,000 (6%). There are more respondents that are Catholic (67%), than those who are not Catholic (33%). There are more respondents who have a child undergoing chemotherapy treatment for 4-6 years (72%) than those who have a child undergoing chemotherapy treatment for more than 7 days (28%). There are more respondents that have a history of cancer in the family (55%), than those who do not have a history of cancer in the family (45%). There are more respondents who have 1-2 children (42%), than those who have 3-4 children (32%), and those who have 5-6 children (26%). 2. The level of coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy is high with an overall mean of 3.21. This means that parents of school age children undergoing chemotherapy have a high level of coping mechanism to stress when their school age child is undergoing chemotherapy.3. There is no siginificant difference in the level of coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy when they are grouped according to family income, religion, length of treatment, history of cancer in the family, number of children, and social support does not sifnificantly differ. 4. There is a significant difference in the level of coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy when they are grouped according to age. Since the computed t-ratio of 2.41 is greater than the tabular t-value of 2.00 using 58 degrees of freedom at 0.05 level. The age group in which the parent of a school age child undergoing chemotherapy have different levels of coping abilities in which their response to stress varies significantly in the age group in which they belong. 5. There is a significant difference in the level of coping ability of parents with school age children undergoing chemotherapy when they are grouped according to educational attainment. Since the computed F-ratio of 3.86 is greater than the tabular F-value of 2.76 using 58 degrees of freedom at 0.05 level. The educational attainment of the parent of a school age child undergoing chemotherapy have different levels of coping abilities in which their response to stress varies significantly to the highest level of educational attainment attained.

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