A study to assess the effectiveness of an intervention package on the care of children undergoing chemotherapy on the knowledge, quality of life and caregiver burden among the parents of children diagnosed with cancer in selected hospital of Udupi district, Karnataka.

The study will be conducted after obtaining permission from the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. The participants will be explained about the study and their participation in the research. Samples will be selected using a convenient sampling technique. The researcher has adopted a pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest research design. Parents of children undergoing chemotherapy for cancer are the participants in the study. Data will be collected from parents while their children are admitted. The data on demographic variables will be collected by administering demographic proforma. During the pretest caregivers will be given a structured knowledge questionnaire to assess their knowledge on the care of children undergoing chemotherapy, WHO-QOL BREF 26 to assess the quality of life, and a structured burden assessment scale for parents of children diagnosed with cancer. On the same day, an information booklet on the care of children undergoing chemotherapy will be given to the parents. A session on coping strategies for parents of children diagnosed with cancer will be conducted on day 1 and day 2. The post-test will be conducted on day 16. The post-test will be conducted to assess the knowledge on the care of children undergoing chemotherapy, quality of life, and caregiver burden using the same data collection instruments.