Brief report: the effect of two short psychological interventions on psychiatric morbidity in parents of pediatric hematology oncology patients, a feasibility study

Shiri Liber; Yuval Oded; Boaz Stern; Julia Katz; Yona Kodman; Avi Valevski; Chaim G. Pick; Isaac Yaniv; Alan Apter; Ettie Grauer; Silvana Fennig; Noa Benaroya-Milshtein

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03510-3

Brief report: the effect of two short psychological interventions on psychiatric morbidity in parents of pediatric hematology oncology patients, a feasibility study

Shiri Liber, Yuval Oded, Boaz Stern, Julia Katz, Yona Kodman, Avi Valevski, Chaim G. Pick, Isaac Yaniv, Alan Apter, Ettie Grauer, Silvana Fennig, Noa Benaroya-Milshtein

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Parents of pediatric oncology patients have an increased prevalence of psychiatric symptoms. The feasibility of two short-term interventions (CBT with Biofeedback; Supportive Therapy and audio-visual relaxation, 9 sessions over 6 weeks in both arms) on reducing psychiatric morbidity was tested in 16 parents of pediatric oncology patients. Parents’ and children’s questionnaires and parents’ endocrinological and immunological parameters (blood count, cortisol levels, lymphocyte cells subpopulations) were evaluated before and after interventions. Parents had fewer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms (d = 0.74) and lower dysfunction scores (r = -0.51) after interventions, lower cortisol levels and platelet count (d = 0.41 and d = 0.46), and higher CD16 cell numbers (d = -0.46). This pilot study demonstrates the benefit of short-term psychological interventions for parents of pediatric oncology patients, as they may reduce PTSD symptomatology in this population.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24175-24180
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Psychology
Volume	42
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03510-3
State	Published - Oct 2023
Externally published	Yes

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The authors would like to thank the Israel Cancer Association and Oncology Memorial Fund for supporting the psycho-oncology research. The authors thank Shemer Eliya (The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for her invaluable help as a research assistant, and Cendrine Bursztein, PhD (Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel) for her invaluable help in psychological interventions. The authors thank Adi Moka for her contribution in editing and proofreading. We thank Schneider’s Children Medical Centre physicians’ committee and editorial board for their help in proof-reading the article. The authors would like to thank the Israel Cancer Association and Oncology Memorial Fund for supporting the psycho-oncology research. The authors thank Shemer Eliya (The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for her invaluable help as a research assistant, and Cendrine Bursztein, PhD (Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel) for her invaluable help in psychological interventions. The authors thank Adi Moka for her contribution in editing and proofreading. We thank Schneider’s Children Medical Centre physicians’ committee and editorial board for their help in proof-reading the article.

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Cendrine Bursztein
Israel Cancer Association and Oncology Memorial Fund
Petah Tikva
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Shemer Eliya

Keywords

Biofeedback
CBT
Pediatric oncology
Post-trauma
Relaxing music
Screensavers

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Liber, S., Oded, Y., Stern, B., Katz, J., Kodman, Y., Valevski, A., Pick, C. G., Yaniv, I., Apter, A., Grauer, E., Fennig, S., & Benaroya-Milshtein, N. (2023). Brief report: the effect of two short psychological interventions on psychiatric morbidity in parents of pediatric hematology oncology patients, a feasibility study. Current Psychology, 42(28), 24175-24180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03510-3

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