Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
“You really need a whole community”: a qualitative study of mothers’ need for and experiences with childcare support during cancer treatment and recovery
Originally published 2022-10-13 · Supportive Care in Cancer
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s00520-022-07399-3 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Explores how community childcare support fits around cancer treatment and existing paid and unpaid work; workplace use is an application, not an employer-benefit trial.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
How could a workplace connect a parent facing serious illness with dependable childcare support?
Explores how community childcare support fits around cancer treatment and existing paid and unpaid work; workplace use is an application, not an employer-benefit trial.
Study context
20 mothers who used the Nanny Angel Network during cancer treatment or recovery.
Age / stage: Adults parenting dependent children during illness.
Read with three questions
- What new care needs arose during treatment and recovery?
- How did awareness, cross-system collaboration and stable funding affect timely access?
- Which claims describe mothers’ experiences rather than an evaluated employment outcome?
Keep the limits in view
Users of one community program may differ from nonusers; qualitative perceived benefits do not establish clinical or employment effects of employer-sponsored childcare.
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Cheryl Pritlove; Lisa V. Dias (2022). “You really need a whole community”: a qualitative study of mothers’ need for and experiences with childcare support during cancer treatment and recovery Supportive Care in Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-07399-3
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