Psychology: Research and Review
Marital Status | Diagnosis | Child’s gender | ||||
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Single or divorced | Married | Leukemia or Lymphoma | Solid tumors | Female | Male | |
Physician’s guidance to child - M(SD) | 6.78 (9.51) | 8.51 (8.20) | 9.49 (9.54) | 5.68 (7.51) | 7.36 (9.1) | 8.24 (8.71) |
t[143] = 1.17; p = 0.24 | t[144] = 2.63; p = 0.15 | t[144] = 0.59; p = 0.38 | ||||
Physician’s guidance to caregiver - M(SD) | 32.1 (23.25) | 39.49 (26.48) | 41.93 (30.9) | 29 (12.37) | 35.5 (23.4) | 36.75 (27.21) |
t[143] = 1.78; p = 0.05 | t[144] = 3.41; p < 0.001 | t[144] = 0.29; p = 0.52 | ||||
Asks child about doubts - M(SD) | 0.54 (1.27) | 1.12 (1.58) | 0.96 (1.57) | 0.79 (1.47) | 0.96 (1.57) | 0.79 (1.47) |
t[143] = 2.38; p < 0.01 | t[144] = 0.69; p = 0.81 | t[144] = 0.66; p = 0.52 | ||||
Asks caregiver about doubts - M(SD) | 1.21 (1.75) | 1.53 (1.89) | 1.73 (1.89) | 0.98 (1.67) | 1.50 (1.91) | 1.26 (1.73) |
t[143] = 1.07; p = 0.45 | t[144] = 2.47; p = 0.16 | t[144] = 0.77; p = 0.35 | ||||
Child’s doubts - M(SD) | 1.12 (2.00) | 1.12 (2.15) | 1.53 (2.54) | 0.68 (1.23) | 1.19 (2.15) | 1.09 (2.03) |
t[143] = 0.002; p = 0.75 | t[144] = 2.61; p < 0.001 | t[144] = 0.29; p = 0.71 | ||||
Caregiver’s doubts - M(SD) | 6.32 (4.96) | 10.16 (8.66) | 10.16 (8.61) | 6.12 (4.73) | 7.76 (5.97) | 9.00 (8.71) |
t[143] = 3.31; p < 0.01 | t[144] = 3.59; p = 0.001 | t[144] = 1.02; p = 0.50 | ||||
Protesting - M(SD) | 2.18 (4.91) | 2.60 (4.78) | 2.73 (5.57) | 1.97 (5.15) | 2.01 (5.09) | 2.81 (5.11) |
t[143] = 0.46; p = 0.80 | t[144] = 1.78; p = 0.28 | t[144] = 0.99; p = 0.08 | ||||
Physician’s bonding with the child - M(SD) | 9.75 (5.44) | 9.38 (5.49) | 11.41 (5.30) | 7.32 (4.74) | 10.18 (6.16) | 8.81 (4.38) |
t[142] = 0.70; p = 0.40 | t[143] = 4.84; p = 0.46 | t[143] = 1.56; p = 0.10 | ||||
Physician’s bonding with the caregiver - M(SD) | 2.70 (3.62) | 2.47 (2.78) | 2.91 (2.63) | 2.21 (3.73) | 2.32 (2.37) | 2.91 (3.92) |
t[142] = 0.43; p = 0.83 | t[143] = 1.31; p = 0.67 | t[143] = 1.07; p = 0.20 | ||||
Obtaining information from child - M(SD) | 3.63 (4.48) | 3.99 (3.57) | 4.20 (4.31) | 3.42 (3.60) | 3.92 (4.4) | 3.76 (3.54) |
t[142] = 0.53; p = 0.91 | t[143] = 1.16; p = 0.53 | t[143] = 0.24; p = 0.28 | ||||
Obtaining information from caregiver - M(SD) | 9.78 (5.82) | 9.91 (5.20) | 9.28 (5.23) | 10.61 (5.71) | 10.22 (6.21) | 9.49 (4.49) |
t[142] = 0.14; p = 0.56 | t[143] = 1.45; p = 0.78 | t[143] = 0.81; p = 0.02 |