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Multicenter Study
. 2024 Dec 8;33(1):7.
doi: 10.1007/s00520-024-09020-1.

Supportive care needs of parents caring for children with leukemia: a latent profile analysis

Jingting Wang  1 , Zhuting Zheng  2 , Xuanyi Bi  1 , Wen Zhang  2 , Yingwen Wang  3 , Huifang Wu  4 , Qi Yang  4 , Linyu Ma  5 , Zhaohui Geng  6 , Changrong Yuan  7
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Multicenter Study

Supportive care needs of parents caring for children with leukemia: a latent profile analysis

Jingting Wang et al. Support Care Cancer. .

Abstract

Background: Parents' supportive care needs directly affect their quality of life and the quality of care for their children diagnosed with leukemia.

Objectives: To identify supportive care needs of Chinese parents in the unobserved subgroups who care for children with leukemia and to examine the associations of the latent class membership with individual characteristics.

Methods: A multicenter cross-sectional survey study was conducted. A total of 221 parents who had children with leukemia were surveyed in China with the Chinese version of the Supportive Care Needs Survey for Caregivers of Children with Pediatric Cancer (SCNS-C-Ped-C). Latent profile analysis (LPA) was applied to identify latent classes of parents according to supportive care needs. Binary logistic regression model was used to identify the association between individual characteristics and the latent class membership.

Results: LPA results suggested a 2-class solution: class 1-"high supportive care needs" class (n = 126, 57.0%) and class 2-"low supportive care needs" class (n = 95, 43.0%). The class membership was significantly associated with children's treatment duration, family income, distance to the hospital, parents' caregiving ability, and coping strategy.

Conclusion: There existed two distinct classes of parents caring for children with leukemia on the basis of supportive care needs. Children's treatment duration, parents' socio-demographic characteristics, caregiving ability, and coping strategy significantly influenced class membership.

Implications for practice: This study highlights the need for tailored interventions to address the specific needs of parents, especially those in the "high supportive care needs" class. Healthcare providers should consider factors related to the class membership when developing the supportive care interventions. Addressing these supportive care needs could improve both parental well-being and the quality of care provided to their children.

Keywords: Children with leukemia; Latent profile analysis; Parents; Supportive care needs.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Ethics approval: Ethical review approval from the Naval Medical University (NO.HJEC-2018-YF-001) was obtained. Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. Consent to publish: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the tables. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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