Clinical Implementation
Exploring the latent classes of caregiving ability in parents of
children with hematological malignancies and the socio-demographic
characteristics of parents in the latent classes could provide useful
information for the professional healthcare providers to identify
parents who are most likely to have low caregiving ability. Therefore,
early and precise supportive intervention could be provided to the
targeted parents to improve their caregiving ability, which in results,
improving the children’s disease prognosis and quality of life.
Moreover, the results of this study also reminded us that parents’ with
high self-appraisal of caregiving ability may not have high ability in
all the aspects of caregiving. Therefore, targeted support needs to be
provided to parents based on their needs. Additionally, parents who have
high self-appraisal of caregiving ability may gradually encounter more
caregiving problems and their self-appraisal of caregiving ability will
change. So, healthcare providers are highly suggested to track the
development of parents’ caregiving ability.