Why did we fail? Challenges recruiting parents with cancer into a psycho-educational support program

Psychooncology. 2019 Dec;28(12):2425-2428. doi: 10.1002/pon.5226. Epub 2019 Oct 31.

Lesley Stafford^{1

2

3}, Michelle Sinclair¹, Louise Newman^{1

3}, Paula Rauch⁴, Michael Barton⁵, Leslie Gilham⁶, Julia Cannell¹, Kylie Mason^{7

8}, Lynette Joubert⁹, Alison Hocking¹⁰, Ruth Little¹

¹ Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Western & Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service (WCMICS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁶ Breast Cancer Network Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Parkville Integrated Haematology Service, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁸ Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁹ Department of Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁰ Social Work and Cultural Diversity, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; oncology; parent-child relationship; parenting; patient recruitment; pilot study; psycho-oncology.

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