Current Projects

A Study of Psychosocial Distress and Parenting Concerns

This National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute-funded study seeks to validate a questionnaire that measures the levels of concern that adults with cancer have about their children who are 18 years of age or younger. It will be conducted in two phases: a focus group phase to gather open-ended information about what parents are concerned about, and a survey questionnaire to measure levels of distress and parenting concerns. We hope that this study will provide useful information about the importance of parenting concerns among adults with cancer in order to raise awareness among professionals and encourage them to address these concerns during cancer treatment.