Concordance of Child Self-Reported and Parent Proxy-Reported Posttraumatic Growth in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F21%3A00545163" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/21:00545163 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/16/4230" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/16/4230</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13164230" target="_blank" >10.3390/cancers13164230</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Concordance of Child Self-Reported and Parent Proxy-Reported Posttraumatic Growth in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Original language description

Simple Summary In pediatric cancer settings, parents can be asked to provide information about the impact of cancer on the child. However, their assessment of the child may not be accurate. Research has shown that parents tend to underestimate the quality of life of their child following pediatric cancer. Little is known about the accuracy of parental reports of posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a consequence of pediatric cancer. Our study aimed to examine concordance of parent- and child-reported PTG with taking into account the parents' own level of PTG. We found poor parent-child concordance, with parents reporting higher levels of PTG for their children than the children themselves. When assessing their child's PTG, parents are influenced by their own level of PTG. These findings provide implications for the research on psychosocial outcomes of pediatric cancer using a multi-informant perspective as well as for the topic of veracity of PTG in general. This article aimed to analyze concordance of parent- and child-reported child posttraumatic growth (PTG) following pediatric cancer, the influence of the parents' own level of PTG on the level of concordance and the influence of the parents' and the child's own level of PTG on the parents' proxy reports of PTG in the child. The sample included 127 parent-child dyads. The children provided self-reports of PTG and the parents provided reports of their own as well as the child's PTG. Overall, the results showed poor parent-child agreement on the child PTG, with the parents proxy-reporting higher levels of PTG than the children. The parents' proxy reports of the child PTG were the most accurate at the lowest levels of the parents' own level of PTG. The parents' own level of PTG was a stronger predictor of the parents' proxy reports than the child self-reported PTG. The results suggest that parents are not very accurate reporters of PTG in the child, therefore, their reports should be completed with child self-reports whenever possible.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-06524S" target="_blank" >GA19-06524S: Factors of positive consequences of childhood cancer: Relationships of posttraumatic growth in children and their parents</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cancers (Basel)

ISSN

2072-6694

e-ISSN

2072-6694

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

4230

UT code for WoS article

000689020900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85113709180