In the early stage, children with leukemia hoped that nurses
could give them psychological support by comforting or
encouraging them; in the remission stage, children wanted to
communicate with nurses about topics like health education
about the disease, interests and study. During the first three
months, the severity of the disease and change of environment
and life style induced severe psychological problems in
the children and they appeared to be in emotional shock.
They particularly needed other’s emotional support
at that time. In later days, the children were in the remission
stage with a stable condition, and they understood the effects
of treatment and life of hospital through experience. They
paid more attention to life in general and hoped to get more
information about their disease.