Personal and Social Resources Are Linked to Cognition and Health-Related Quality of Life in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Personal and Social Resources Are Linked to Cognition and Health-Related Quality of Life in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Personal and social resources may buffer the adverse effects of childhood cancer and its impact on cognition and quality of life. While childhood cancer survivors show domain-specific cognitive difficulties, little is known about their personal and social resources. We therefore investigated persona...

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Published in:Children (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 7; p. 936
Main Authors: Siegwart, Valerie, Schürch, Kirstin, Benzing, Valentin, Roessler, Jochen, Everts, Regula
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 22-06-2022
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Subjects:
Adjustment
Age
Brain cancer
Cancer therapies
childhood cancer survivors
Cognition & reasoning
cognitive outcome
Coping
Drug abuse
Executive function
health-related quality of life
Memory
Pediatrics
Quality of life
Risk factors
Self esteem
social and personal resources
Standard scores
Stress
Tumors
health-related quality of life
cognitive outcome
childhood cancer survivors
social and personal resources
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Summary:Personal and social resources may buffer the adverse effects of childhood cancer and its impact on cognition and quality of life. While childhood cancer survivors show domain-specific cognitive difficulties, little is known about their personal and social resources. We therefore investigated personal and social resources and their association with cognitive and quality-of-life outcomes in childhood cancer survivors. Seventy-eight survivors of childhood cancer of different etiologies (aged 7−16 years; ≥one year since treatment) and fifty-six healthy controls were included. Cognitive outcome was assessed by neuropsychological tests; personal and social resources, as well as health-related quality of life, were assessed by standardized questionnaires. In the social resource domain, peer integration was worse in survivors than in controls (puncorr < 0.04, d = 0.33). Personal resources and all other subscales of social resources did not significantly differ between survivors and controls. In survivors, the global resource score was significantly correlated with processing speed (r = 0.39, pcorr < 0.001) and quality of life (parent: r = 0.44; self-report: r = 0.46; pscorr < 0.001). In controls, no association occurred between resources and cognitive outcome, and the correlation between the global resource score and quality of life did not withstand correction for multiple comparison (parent: r = 0.28; self-report: r = 0.40, psuncorr < 0.001). After an adverse event such as childhood cancer, resources might play a particularly buffering role on cognitive performance and quality of life (when compared to the everyday life of healthy controls). This highlights the importance of interventions that strengthen the resources of children and their families, even years after cancer. Such resource-focused intervention could help to counteract long-term sequelae in cognitive outcomes and health-related quality of life.
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ISSN:2227-9067
2227-9067
DOI:10.3390/children9070936