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.