Faculty of Education for Human Sciences / University of Kerbala has discussed anticipatory grief and its relationship to meaning management among parents of children with cancer.
The thesis aims at identifying anticipatory grief among parents of children with cancer.
The study concludes that parents of children with cancer have anticipatory sadness, as well as an inverse correlation between anticipatory sadness and meaning management among parents of children with cancer.
The study recommends the necessity of designing guidance groups to support parents of children with cancer, which will ultimately lead to formation of support groups that represent a constant social resource available in hospitals.
