In the early stage, health professionals should actively
initiate communicate with children and discuss with parents
the importance of deciding how and how much to tell
the children about the disease. Nurses could provide positive
information for children and give them confidence. If
children are unwilling to speak with others, nurses should
take more time to stay with them, explain, enlighten, and
encourage them to express their feelings, and make effective
nurseepatient communication. Secondly, nurses
should prompt parents to communicate with children, and
help parents to keep emotionally stable while facing their
children in order to prevent transmission of negative
emotions. Thirdly, nurses could encourage children to keep
connecting with their friends, and promote good emotional
expression indirectly. For nurseepatient communication,
nurses should choose appropriate content to communicate
with children using different mediums as appropriate to
the situation. As the course of the disease progresses,
nurses should take more time to become involved in children’s
daily life as friends, giving them emotional and life
support.