There were six childhood lymphoma families involved in the study. All
came from two- parent families and three of the fathers participated in the
interviews. Only two of the families resided in the metropolitan areas, with
the remaining families travelling from other towns in the state (n = 3) or a
town just over the Queensland/New South Wales border (n = 1). Two of
the families were staying in hostel accommodation provided at the hospital
and one family was unaware of the hospital accommodation and so was
staying in a local private hotel. At the point of enrolment in the study, the
The experience of treatment was documented through qualitative research
using open-ended interviews with the child patients, their parents, and
well siblings at key points in the treatment trajectory. The key points differed
for the different diagnostic groups, depending on the treatment protocol.
For lymphoma families, there were three points of contact within
the treatment protocol: two months from the beginning of treatment (T1);
end of Treatment (T2); and one-year post treatment (T3)