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Yağmur Sezer Efe1, Harun Özbey1, Nuray Caner1
1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
Purpose:
This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine social exclusion, internalized and externalized behavioral problems in adolescents with cancer and to compare them with healthy counterparts.
Design And Methods:
The sample consisted of adolescents age 10-19 years (N = 70) followed up in the hemato-oncology outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital and healthy adolescents age 10-19 years (N = 92) who were studying in secondary and high schools. The data were collected with a questionnaire for adolescents with cancer and healthy adolescents, The Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents (OES-A), Youth Externalizing Behavior Screener (YEBS), and Youth Internalizing Problems Screener (YIPS).
Results:
The OES-A mean scores of cancer and healthy adolescents in the study were 35.68 ± 9.38 and 27.64 ± 5.35 (p ≤ 0.001), the YEBS mean scores were 23.51 ± 4.88 and 20.52 ± 5.42 (p ≤ 0.001), and the YIPS mean scores were 21.72 ± 6.48 and 19.18 ± 7.60 (p = 0.007), respectively. There was a low-level positive correlation between the mean scores of the OES-A and YEBS (r = 0.345, p < 0.05) and mean scores of the YEBS and YIPS (r = 0.308, p < 0.05) of adolescents with cancer.
Conclusions:
Adolescents with cancer had higher scores on social exclusion, internalized and externalized behavioral problems than healthy counterparts in the current study.
Practice Implications:
The current study should lead pediatric oncology nurses to be more aware of social exclusion and internalized and externalized behavioral problems in adolescents with cancer after clinical treatment, and to provide appropriate psycho-oncological care.
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