Correlations between parents’ PTSS, depression, family function and children’s PTSS
Table 3 shows that more severe PTSS and depression of the parents and a poorer general family function were associated with a higher likelihood of PTSS in the children with cancer (r =0.317,P <0.01; r =0.504, P <0.01; andr =0.207, P <0.05, respectively). Among the parents, the severity of PTSS was positively correlated with depression (r =0.786, P <0.01) and family functioning (r =0.266, P <0.05).
In the control group, in contrast to the cancer group, parental PTSS (r =0.152, P >0.05) or depression (r =0.170, P >0.05) was not found to significantly correlate with PTSS in the children. But similar to the cancer group, the general family function score was positively correlated with PTSS in children (r =0.303,P <0.01), and parental PTSS was positively correlated with depression (r =0.636, P <0.01) and general family function (r =0.233, P <0.05).