Introduction
Anxiety and distress caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic and preventative measures including social distancing seem to
increase psychosocial stress in general populations.1,
2 Because children with cancer are vulnerable and they and their
caregivers often already experience high levels of stress and
anxiety,3 they may be affected in
particular.4, 5 To extend the very limited available
knowledge,2, 6 we aim to compare psychosocial
functioning of Dutch children with cancer and their caregivers in the
first months of the COVID-19 era to the pre-COVID-19 era.