Researchers at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer and CanTeen Australia are conducting a study to explore young people’s thoughts about their parent’s cancer, and are seeking participants.

Findings will be valuable in helping to better understand how young people cope with their parent’s cancer and informing the development of improved ways to support them after a parent has been diagnosed.

Staff are invited to assist researchers by passing on this information to young people they know of who may be eligible to participate.

Study participants must be aged between 12 and 24, have a parent who was diagnosed with or treated for cancer in the last two years, and have been living with this parent at the time of their diagnosis and/or treatment.

Participation is voluntary and involves completing a survey that will take no more than 30 minutes.

Participants between 18 and 24 years old may complete this survey online.

Participants between 12 and 17 years old will need parental consent to complete the survey, and are asked to register their interest in the study online.