Coping skills and mental health status in adolescents when a parent has cancer: a multicenter and multi-perspective study.

  • Thomas Krattenmacher
  • Franziska Kühne
  • Daniel Führer
  • Volker Beierlein
  • Elmar Brähler
  • Franz Resch
  • Kai V Klitzing
  • Hans-Henning Flechtner
  • Corinna Bergelt
  • Georg Romer
  • Birgit Möller

Abstract

Parental cancer increases the risk of psychosocial problems in adolescents. We investigated the frequency and efficacy of adolescents' coping strategies and relationships between those strategies and mental health status. Age and gender differences regarding coping and mental health were also investigated.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number3
ISSN0022-3999
Publication statusPublished - 2013
pubmed 23438718