parenting concerns in cancer patients with minor children: a scoping review

Background: Parenting problems are prevalent in cancer patients, and breast cancer patients themselves are more prone to depression, anxiety, fear of illness and other negative emotions, and the role of motherhood requires female cancer patients to be treated while raising their children, and patients must balance managing their illness with caring for their minor children. Therefore, the group of young and middle-aged cancer deserves more attention from society, medical treatment, and nursing. Objectives： to summarise the influencing factors of rearing anxiety of young and middle-aged cancer patients with minor children. Design: Scoping review Data sources: the scope review report framework of Arksey and O'Malley was used to search China Knowledge Network (CNKI),China Biomedical Literature Database (CBM),Wanfang database,PubMed,Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane Library From the establishment of the database to July 20,2024,the included literatures were screened and analysed. Results: A total of 13 articles were included. the results showed that the level of parenting anxiety of cancer patients at home and abroad was higher, which was mostly affected by personal characteristics, disease characteristics and psychosocial characteristics. Conclusion: Cancer patients are affected by many factors in the process of disease and parenting,and face the challenge of parenting,which leads to a high level of parenting anxiety. Therefore,future medical workers should pay close attention to the parenting concerns of cancer patients and regard them as the core part of psychological care.