Adolescents and parents experiencing parental cancer: construction of a nursing intervention model
Ana Filipa Domingues Sousa1,2,3, Paula Cristina Moreira Mesquita de Sousa4, Maria Margarida da Silva Reis Dos Santos Ferreira1,4,5
1Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Porto, Portugal.
Objective:
To develop a nursing intervention model for adolescents and parents experiencing parental cancer.
Method:
Multimethod research, which integrated five studies: a scoping review and four qualitative studies. Considering the results of these studies, a nursing intervention model was constructed based on two theoretical frameworks, such as the A Model of Children's Adjustment to Parental Cancer, for adolescents, and Neuman Systems Model, for parents, and on a semantic framework, such as Nursing Ontology.
Results:
The model is aimed at three target audiences: individual - parental figure with cancer; individual - adolescent; and family - parental figure with cancer, second parental figure and adolescent. The model is based on health literacy and includes four topics that address central topics in the experience of parental cancer: "The elephant in the room"; "Everything changes in us"; "Life goes on"; and "With the present, we plan the future".
Conclusion:
The proposed model is assumed as a health promotion strategy that empowers nurses for a family-centered intervention, in order to minimize the impact of parental cancer.
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