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Hawley, Carol, Ward, Anthony B., Magnay, Andrew R. and Long, Julie (2003) Parental stress and burden following traumatic brain injury amongst children and adolescents. Brain Injury, Vol.17 (No.1). pp. 1-23. doi:10.1080/0269905021000010096
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0269905021000010096
Abstract
Primary objectives: to assess parental stress following paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) and examine the relationship between self-reported problems and parental stress and general health.
Research design: controlled interview study
Methods and procedures: Parents of ninety-seven children admitted with a TBI (49 mild, 19 moderate, 29 severe) were identified from a case register of all paediatric admissions from 1992-1998. Parents of 31 uninjured children acted as controls. Structured interviews were carried out with families, and parents assessed on the Parenting Stress Index (PSI/SF) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) at recruitment, and repeated 12 months later.
Main outcomes and results: regardless of injury severity, parents of injured children suffered greater stress than control parents as measured by the PSI/SF (p = 0.001). There was a highly significant relationship between number of problems reported and level of parental stress (p = 0.001). Financial burden was related to severity of TBI.
Conclusions: improved information, follow-up, and support is likely to reduce parental stress and family burden.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Parents of children with disabilities -- Psychology, Stress (Psychology), Children -- Wounds and injuries, Head -- Wounds and injuries, Brain -- Wounds and injuries | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Brain Injury | ||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||
| ISSN: | 0269-9052 | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2003 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.17 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-23 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/0269905021000010096 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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