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KMID : 0613620210410030130
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Health Social Welfare Review
2021 Volume.41 No. 3 p.130 ~ p.159
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Current Psychosocial Care for Children and Adolescents with Cancer and Their Families: Perspectives of Service Providers in Hospitals and Community Welfare Agencies
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Kim Min-Ah
Choi Kwon-Ho
You Jung-Won
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Abstract
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Survivors of pediatric and adolescent cancer and their families experience various psychosocial difficulties throughout survivorship. Thus, it is important to provide psychosocial services to improve their quality of life. This study explored the status of service provision in Korea from the perspective of hospital and community welfare service providers based on the psychosocial standards of care for childhood cancer developed in the United States. Nine medical social workers in hospitals and five social workers in community welfare agencies were interviewed about service provision and barriers. The analysis found psychosocial assessments, interventions, and support for patients and primary care providers with economic difficulty during the initial diagnosis and treatment process were comprehensively provided, but interventions for siblings and other family members were limited. Services for school reentry, social interaction, long-term follow-up and monitoring, palliative care, and bereavement support services were not sufficient. This study provides implications for expanding service resources and scope, strengthening multidisciplinary cooperation, developing professional training for service providers, and further developing a Korean version of standardized guidelines for psychosocial services for childhood cancer.
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KEYWORD
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Pediatric and Adolescents Cancer, Psychosocial Services, Perspectives of Service Providers, Standardized Guidelines for Psychosocial Services
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