Social Work Department, Tel Hai Academic Collage, Upper Galilee, 1220800, Israel; Social Work Department, Zefat Academic Collage, 11 Jerusalem St., Zefat, Israel.
School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel.
Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2022 Jun;58:102140. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2022.102140. Epub 2022 Apr 14.
The study aim was to assess ethnicity-related differences in perceived threat and coping strategies used by Jewish and Arab mothers of pediatric cancer patients, and the effects of these strategies on the mothers' distress and quality of life.
The sample consisted of 100 Arab and 97 Jewish mothers whose child was diagnosed with cancer and was being treated in an oncology unit. They completed questionnaires assessing demographic and illness variables; threat, task-oriented, emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping; psychological distress; and quality of life.
Arab mothers exhibited higher levels for all three coping strategies compared to Jewish mothers, but the highest difference was found for emotion-oriented coping. Task-oriented coping was related to lower distress levels and higher quality of life, whereas threat, emotion-oriented coping, and avoidance-oriented coping were related to higher distress and lower quality of life levels. Ethnicity moderated some of the effects of task-oriented and emotion-oriented coping on distress or quality of life.
Ethnicity and coping strategy type are important in understanding the distress patterns and quality of life of mothers with a child diagnosed with cancer.
本研究旨在评估犹太裔和阿拉伯裔儿科癌症患儿母亲感知的威胁和应对策略的种族差异，以及这些策略对母亲的痛苦和生活质量的影响。
研究样本包括 100 名阿拉伯裔和 97 名犹太裔母亲，其子女被诊断患有癌症并在肿瘤病房接受治疗。这些母亲填写了评估人口统计学和疾病变量、威胁、任务导向、情绪导向和回避导向应对策略、心理困扰和生活质量的问卷。
与犹太裔母亲相比，阿拉伯裔母亲在所有三种应对策略上的得分都更高，但在情绪导向应对策略上的得分差异最大。任务导向应对策略与较低的痛苦水平和较高的生活质量相关，而威胁、情绪导向应对策略和回避导向应对策略与较高的痛苦水平和较低的生活质量相关。种族在任务导向和情绪导向应对策略对痛苦或生活质量的一些影响中起到了调节作用。
种族和应对策略类型对于理解被诊断患有癌症的儿童的母亲的痛苦模式和生活质量非常重要。
