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Need to reduce anxiety and obtain individualised information are considered the main supportive components of parents/caregivers of children with cancer through the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
  1. Fatemeh Ebrahimpour
  1. Department of Pediatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
  1. Correspondence to Dr Fatemeh Ebrahimpour, Pediatric Nursing, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of); F.ebrahimpour93{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103688

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    Commentary on: Collaço N, Gamble A, Morgan JE, Phillips B, Culliford D, Darlington AS. Experiences and support needs of parents/caregivers of children with cancer through the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a longitudinal study. Arch Dis Child. 2023 Mar;108(3):198–203. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324905. Epub 2022 Nov 30.

    Implications for practice and research

    • To teach paediatric oncology nurses how to provide child-family-centred care based on specific needs.

    • To spark research ideas on nursing interventions for anxiety in children with cancer and their families.

    Context

    The study based on literature mentions that parents/caregivers of children with cancer have additional worries about the potential impact of COVID-19 on their children’s health. It was conducted to identify the experiences, information and support needs of parents/caregivers of children with cancer throughout the different …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.