Health-Related Behaviour Among Children of Childhood Cancer Survivors in Germany.
Klin Padiatr
; 229(3): 118-125, 2017 May.
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ABSTRACT
Purpose:
Childhood cancer survivors fear that previous therapy could not only impair their own but also their children's health. We examined whether health-related behaviour in children of childhood cancer survivors differs from the general population.Methods:
Our first nationwide survey wave (2013-2014) surveyed offspring health in 396 German childhood cancer survivors known to have a child of their own. Answers about health behaviour were analysed using descriptive statistics. Data were collected for 418 offspring and 394 could be integrated for matched-pair analyses with data from the German general population (KIGGS, n=17 641).Results:
Teeth-cleaning routine, body-mass-index or subjective body image evaluation by parents were no different from children in the general population. Parents who included a cancer survivor smoked less in the presence of their children (p=0.01). During pregnancy, mothers in cancer survivor parent pairs abstained from drinking alcohol more often (p=0.01) and smoked less (p=0.05). While the calculated effect sizes (Phi) were generally low (0.135-0.247), children from cancer survivors played less outdoors than peers did (p=0.01). Boys participated in sports outside a club more often (p=0.05) and watched less TV on weekdays (p=0.01) and girls spent more time on the computer during weekdays than peers did (p=0.01).Conclusions:
This study provides the first data for health-related behaviour in cancer survivors' offspring and sheds light on differences to parenting in the general population. Multivariate analyses in a larger study population are needed to relate these differences to fear issues in cancer survivors.
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Assunto principal:
Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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Saúde da Criança
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Filho de Pais com Deficiência
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Sobreviventes de Câncer
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article