WSP can improve the life quality satisfaction and enhance the social and mental functions of the child patients in the perspective of themselves
In the perspective of children with pediatric cancers, the QLSCA form was applied to evaluate the effect of WSP. This questionnaire could be categorized into 3 sections, including life quality satisfaction, social mental function, and physical and mental health, each section has varying amounts of subcategories. Based on the results of QLSCA form from the children with pediatric cancers, compared to the OP group, the WSP has significantly improved the overall life quality satisfaction of the IDP group (p=0.045) but has no significant effect on either self-satisfaction (p=0.086) or life satisfaction (p=0.123) (Table 2). Besides, compared to the OP group, the WSP also has enhanced IDP group’s social and mental functions (p=0.021), including self-conception (p=0.01) and learning ability and attitude (p=0.005), but it has not much help on the relationships, including companionship (p=0.2), teacher-student relationship (p=0.248), and parent-child relationship (p=0.088). Additionally, the WSP has no effect on physical and mentor health either on IDP or OP groups (p=0.331). These results demonstrated appropriate psychological intervention support can improve children’s satisfaction with the quality of life, enhance the children’s social and mental functions, especially in terms of self-conception, learning ability, and attitude. But The WSP has not much help on the relationship improvement, it suggested that the child patients are unwilling to open up their hearts to communicate further with those around them, including their parents, it may be because their physical and mental health was heavily traumatized due to the intensive comprehensive anti-cancer therapies, it also indicated that the children with pediatric cancers need professional psychotherapy to fix up their psychological trauma.