Children and adolescents with cancer often experience physical and psycho-social complications from treatment. We interview educators and healthcare providers to help improve young survivors’ transition back to the classroom after treatment.
Young cancer survivors often experience fatigue, brain fog, headaches, and feelings of social isolation and anxiety, which will be greater for those receiving more intensive cancer treatments for longer durations. Young survivors of brain or spinal tumours are especially vulnerable to these adverse effects. Yet returning to mainstream school from home or hospital represents a vital part of young survivors’ return to normalcy.
We aim to identify the barriers and facilitators to survivors’ successful reintegration to the classroom where they will learn and socialize alongside their healthy peers.
Please consider participating if you are:
- A healthcare provider (e.g., social worker, psychologist, counselor, audiologist, child life specialist) OR a teacher or principal with the Vancouver School Board;
- Have experience working with children and adolescent cancer survivors (ages 0-18 years) within the last 10 years; and
- Provide services in British Columbia
To participate in the interview study, please complete a brief intake survey by clinking here. Eligible participants will be invited to participate in an interview over Zoom or MS Teams. The interview will take no longer than 60 minutes. All non-PHSA employees will receive a $100 gift card for their participation.
For further information about this study, please contact the study manager Colene Bentley at cbentley@bccrc.ca for more information or to express your interest.
Study Team:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Meera Rayar, MD, BC Children’s Hospital
Co-Investigators:
Dr. Stuart Peacock, DPhil, SFU, BC Cancer
Dr. Helen McTaggart-Cowan, PhD, BC Cancer
Dr. Karen Goddard, MD, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Sylvia Cheng, MD, BC Children’s Hospital