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. 2020 Jul 1;10(7):107.
doi: 10.3390/bs10070107.

Pediatric Patients Treated for Leukemia Back to School: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Narratives about Daily Life and Illness Experience

Marta Tremolada  1   2 , Livia Taverna  3 , Sabrina Bonichini  1 , Marta Pillon  2 , Alessandra Biffi  2 , Maria Caterina Putti  2
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Pediatric Patients Treated for Leukemia Back to School: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Narratives about Daily Life and Illness Experience

Marta Tremolada et al. Behav Sci (Basel). .

Abstract

In the last few years, more children and adolescents healed from leukemia go back to their daily life, even if they can show some psycho-social difficulties. The study adopted semi-structured interviews and a mixed-method approach to examine the narratives of 75 children and adolescents about their return to school post 2-years treatment for leukemia. The aims are to collect their illness experiences, to understand how they feel about school and daily routines and to identify the best socio-demographic and illness predictors of a good re-adaptation to school and daily life. The results show that by increasing age and when the pediatric patient have received a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, at the stop-therapy time, her/his perception about relationships at school and academic performance decrease, especially if his/her feelings about the disease and follow-up visits are negative.

Keywords: follow-up perceptions; narratives; pediatric leukemia; peer relationships; school re-entry.

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Predictive factors of the relationship with the school and of the physical adaptation to the school.
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