Limitations
There are some limitations in the
study. First, data were collected in three children’s hospitals in
Shanghai, Suzhou and Chongqing, China that are all big cities. Secondly,
parents of children with leukemia account for majority of the sample. As
such, the generalizability of our findings may be limited. Finally,
after the diagnosis of their children, parents’ caregiving ability
changes across the children’s disease treatment period. The present
study is a cross-sectional study and unable to speculate the trajectory
of parents’ caregiving ability development. Therefore, a longitudinal
study is needed to explore the developmental trend of parents’
caregiving ability in the future.