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.