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Abstract
The aim of this study was to study the effect of nursing intervention on stressors and coping patterns of children suffering from cancer and their mothers through assessment of their stressors and coping patterns, design and implement nursing intervention and study the effect of the implemented nursing intervention on the studied subjects’ stressors and coping patterns. This study was conducted at both Inpatient Medical Department and Outpatient Oncology Clinics of Pediatrics Hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. The studied subjects composed of one hundred and fifty children suffering from cancer and their accompanying mothers randomly divided into two equal groups (study and control) that entail 75 children and their accompanying mothers in each group. Tools of data collection involved questionnaire sheets to assess characteristics, knowledge, stressors (physical, psychological, social and financial) and coping patterns of the studied subjects. Based upon the actual needs assessment of the studied subjects an educational nursing intervention was prepared and implemented. Results of this revealed that, the study, group’s knowledge regarding cancer and its treatment is improved, the level of stressors is lowered and coping is positively promoted after implementation of the nursing intervention compared to the control group. Conclusion the study concluded that, nursing intervention had a positive impact on the studied subjects’ knowledge, decreased levels of stressors and promoted positive coping patterns towards stressors related to cancer in children.