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Vol.10 No.1 April 2017
Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Wiyata Husada Samarinda
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Cancer and its treatment can affect a child's physical condition and have an impact on selfcare
behaviors. Therefore, a child needs helps from parents to fulfill their self-care to maintain
child’s healthiness and improve quality of life. The ability of a parent or guardian to fulfill child
self-care can be seen from the behavior that perform self-care activities for the children and depend
on parents' ability to meet the needs of self-care. If someone does not have adequate capability,
there will be a decrease in self-care or self-care deficit. The objective of this research was to know
how the parents fulfill self-care needs.This research consisting of qualitative research with
descriptive fenomenology approach. The research carried out for one months in September 2014
in RSUP dr. Sardjito hospital, Yogyakarta. involving 6 parents by using purposive sampling
technique. The experience was evaluated by using guide of interview. Data were analyzed with
callaizi methods. The results of in-depth interviews obtained five themes, namely meaning and
importance of self-care, self-care behaviors, family support, difficulty in performing self-care and
hope to nurse. Parent's ability to fulfill self-care needs to be improved, so that children with cancer
can have a good quality of life
Keywords: Children with Cancer, self-care, parents
