Table 2. Parents’ answer to the questions “Have you had any particularly negative/positive experience in relation to your child’s cancer disease?” five years after the child’s cancer treatment or death.
| Parents of survivors | Bereaved parents | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n(%) | n(%) | |||||
| Fathers | Mothers | Total | Fathers | Mothers | Total | |
| (n = 64) | (n = 68) | (n = 132) | (n = 16) | (n = 20) | (n = 36) | |
| Negative experience/s | ||||||
| Yes | 40(62.5) | 47(69.1) | 87(65.1) | 13(81.3) | 15(75.0) | 28(77.8) |
| Don’t know | 1(1.6) | 2(2.9) | 3(2.3) | 1(6.3) | 1(5.0) | 2(5.6) |
| No | 23(35.9) | 19(27.9) | 42(31.8) | 2(12.5) | 4(20.0) | 6(16.7) |
| Positive experience/s | ||||||
| Yes | 59(92.2) | 61(89.7) | 120(90.1) | 10(62.5) | 18(90.0) | 28(77.8) |
| Don’t know | 2(3.1) | 4(5.9) | 6(4.5) | 0(0) | 1(5.0) | 1(2.8) |
| No | 3(4.7) | 3(4.4) | 6(4.5) | 6(37.5) | 1(5.0) | 7(27.8) |