Purpose Caring for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a distressing
experience for parents without medical training. The experience can lead to parents' care …

Abstract Over the years Consultation-Liaison (CL) psychiatry has contributed significantly to
the growth of the psychiatry and has brought psychiatry very close to the advances in the …

Objective: To evaluate psychopathology and coping mechanisms in parents of children with
a chronic illness. Methods: 30 parents whose children had Thalassaemia were randomly …

Background Having a haematological condition can adversely affect the quality of life (QoL)
of family members/partners of patients. It is important to measure this often ignored burden in …

Aim: This study aims to study the caregiver burden and its correlates among the caregivers
of adolescent and adult patients of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Materials and …

It is estimated that around 2.5 million people suffer from cancer at any given time in India.
Almost 80% of patients reach hospitals in advanced stages of the disease. The majority …

To study the caregiver burden and its correlates among the caregivers of adolescent and
adult subjects with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). 30 caregivers of patients with AML …

Psycho-oncology is the study of psychiatric and psychosocial aspects of cancer, which may
be related to the development, course, or outcome of cancer. Psychiatric oncology as a sub …

Background: With the development of medical technology, leukemia as the most common
cancer in pediatrics, its overall survival rate has been as high as 92%. However, during …

Results: On assessing the psychiatric morbidity by SCL 90R, significant psychopathology
was found in 54 (90%) out of 60 mothers. Depression was the predominant …