Parental palliative cancer: psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life in adolescents participating in a German family counselling service.

<AbstractText Label="BACKGROUND" NlmCategory="BACKGROUND">Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered. The objectives of this paper were a) to identify differences in psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents and young adults with parents suffering from palliative cancer or cancers in other disease stages, b) to relate psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life to adolescent coping, and c) to explore significant mediator and predictor variables.