Deribe, Leul(Assistant Professor)Berhan, Emebet (MSc, Lecturer)Mezgebu, Esubalew2020-12-142023-11-052020-12-142023-11-052020-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/24043Background: Resilience is an ability to overcome adversities in response to a potentially traumatic event. Resilience relieves parents’ discomfort; it also helps to build personal capacity while they face in a stressful situation like children with cancer. Despite having this importance, the magnitude and its predictors of resilience among parents of children with cancer were unknown at Jimma medical center. Objective: To assess the magnitude of resilience and its predictors among the Parents of Children with Cancer at Jimma medical center, 2020. Method: An institutional-based cross-sectional design was employed on 126 parents of children with cancer at Jimma medical center. All study population who attend the hospital from February 25-April 25, 2020 and fulfills the inclusion criteria were included in the study. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews using a pretested structured questionnaire. Data were entered into Epi data version 4.6.0.2 and analyzed by SPSS version 25. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the study variables, Furthermore, linear regression analysis was calculated to assess predictors of resilience. Result: A total of 126 parents of children with cancer were interviewed yielding response rate of 96.8%. Little more than half (54.1%) of the respondents were mothers. The level of resilience among parents’ children with cancer were a mean scored 51.41±12.02. In this study, factors associated with resilience were; receiving support from friends (β=5.67, 95%CI=1.58, 9.77; and receiving health information from health care professionals (β=6.37; 95%CI= (1.75, 11.00), and parents depression (β= -0.827, 95%CI (-1.619,-0.034). Conclusion. The magnitude of resilience among parents of children with cancer was low. Support from friends and receiving health information from health care professionals were positively associated with resilience. Whereas, parents’ depression was negatively associated with resilience. Therefore, we recommended Jimma medical center health care providers including psychologists, Ministry of health and researchers should understand different factors and should give concern, to identify vulnerable parents and preparing and providing educational and psychological supports to improve parents’ health.en-USResilience, Pediatric Cancer, Jimma medical center, Parents.Thesis