Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic and consequential massive adjustments in everyday life seem stressful on general populations,1 including Dutch children.2 Children with cancer and their parents were suggested to be vulnerable for psychosocial problems because of already increased stress-levels due to their cancer diagnosis and treatment,3 because of worries about the potential impact of COVID-19 illness4 and consequences of the pandemic on their treatment.5 However, in the first months of the pandemic, psychosocial stress of Dutch children with cancer and their parents was not increased compared to the months before.6 The duration of the pandemic and alternating phases of more and less restrictive preventative measures may have impacted psychosocial functioning differently. Thus, we revisit this subject and aim to compare psychosocial functioning of children with cancer and their caregivers in several phases of the COVID-19 pandemic to before the pandemic.