psychosocial experiences of transition from pediatrics to adult wards of adolescents receiving oncology care at kenyatta national hospital

Description

Adolescence is a time of considerable physical and emotional changes, and cancer diagnosis during this time can have a profound impact on a child's psychological and physical developmentand complicates the experiences typical to this life phase. Unfortunately, much of the focus in most of the oncological care settings is on disease management and hence adolescent cancer patients’ readiness and psychosocial and emotional experiences often remain largely overlooked