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Photovoice With Pediatric Cancer Parents: Understanding Difficulties And Communicative Behaviors For Coping Effectively, Gabriela Isela Morales
Photovoice With Pediatric Cancer Parents: Understanding Difficulties And Communicative Behaviors For Coping Effectively, Gabriela Isela Morales
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Pediatric cancer is a disease that not only affects children but their families as well. Both patients and their caregiving families have to cope with the many twists and turns that every day presents. This research study is aimed to understand and discover through the use of Photovoice--responding to questions through photographs and later narrating them--what difficulties and dilemmas parents face and what communicative behaviors and practices parents engage in to effectively care for their child. Living effectively with pediatric cancer involves more than medical regimens and treatment schedules. How this disease is communicated in public discourses, and how caregivers …