SES, coping, and distress in parents of children with pediatric cancer : the roles of individual, neighborhood, and healthcare factors

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, parents experience a myriad of stressors including the medical and financial obligations of treatment. These parents are at an increased risk for psychological distress. The proposed study seeks to identify how individual, neighborhood, and healthcare components of socioeconomic status are related to parental distress following a child’s cancer diagnosis. The study will further examine how coping mediates the relation between these SES composite variables and parent distress. To examine the hypotheses, descriptive analyses, bivariate correlations and regression analyses will be conducted