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Abstract
Leukemia is the most common form of childhood cancer. Leukemia is an abnormal unrestricted proliferation of immature white blood cells in the bone marrow and certain blood forming tissues. These cells then infiltrate other tissues, particularly the liver, spleen, and lymph glands and replace functional cells with leukemic cells. The goal of effective management of leukemia is to allow children to function with minimal restrictions and enjoy a good quality of life throughout their lives.
Nursing is concerned with how human beings experience health and illness. Nurses are in a unique position to assess the quality of life. As human science, Nurses are able to assess the children’s perceptions of quality of life and how these perceptions influence their response to the diseases. They are trained to intervene to maximize the children’s strengths and contribute to their quality of life. Therefore, the aim of the study is to assess the quality of life of school-age children and early adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
The study was conducted at In-patient and Out-patient Departments of El-Mansoura University Oncology Center. All school- age children and early adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and their mothers, who attended the mentioned setting over a period of 4 months comprised the subjects (n=100). Two tools were used to elicit the necessary data. The leukemic children’s structured interview questionnaire which was developed by the researcher to collect the sociodemographic data of the children and adolescents and their mothers and the children’s type of treatment. The second tool was the Pediatric Quality of Life Scale (PedsQOL) which was developed by Verni,(1998). It is modular approach to measure health related quality of life (HRQOL) of children and adolescents. Four PedsQOL cancer modules self reports were used. They were: a) Child Report (ages 8 – 12 years); b) Parents Report for children ages 8 – 12 years); c) Teens Report (ages 13 – 15 years); and d) Parents Report for Teens (ages 13 – 15 years). Every school-age child/adolescent and their mothers were interviewed to collect the necessary data.