Adaptive functioning in pediatric brain tumor survivors: An examination of ethnicity and socioeconomic status

• Published in: Pediatric blood & cancer Vol. 66; no. 9; pp. e27800 - n/a
• Main Authors: Raghubar, Kimberly P., Orobio, Jessica, Ris, M. Douglas, Heitzer, Andrew M., Roth, Alexandra, Brown, Austin L., Okcu, M. Fatih, Chintagumpala, Murali, Grosshans, David R., Paulino, Arnold C., Mahajan, Anita, Kahalley, Lisa S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2019
• Subjects: adaptive functioning; Adaptive sampling; Adolescent; Adult; Brain cancer; Brain Neoplasms - ethnology; Brain Neoplasms - mortality; Brain Neoplasms - therapy; brain tumor; Brain tumors; Cancer Survivors; Caregivers; Child; Child, Preschool; Demographic variables; Demographics; Electronic medical records; Ethnicity; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Hematology; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Male; Minority & ethnic groups; Oncology; Pediatrics; radiation; Social Class; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomic status; Socioeconomics; brain tumor; adaptive functioning; ethnicity; radiation; socioeconomic status

Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumor are at risk for adaptive difficulties. The present study examined adaptive functioning in a multiethnic sample of survivors accounting for socioeconomic status, and whether demographic, diagnostic, and/or treatment‐related variables predict adaptive outc...