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Objective
Explore the mental health trajectories of parents following their child's life‐threatening illness/injury.
Methods
Participants were 217 parents (mean age: 34.9–40.0; 66 fathers) of 165 children who presented to a tertiary hospital with a life‐threatening illness/injury. Parents completed questionnaires about their mental health and psychosocial stressors within 4 weeks of the child's...
Parents and caregivers of children with cancer are both resilient and deeply affected by the child's cancer. A systematic review of published research since 1995 identified 138 studies of moderate quality indicating that parent distress increases around diagnosis, then returns to normal levels. Post‐traumatic symptoms are common. Distress may be impairing for vulnerable parents and may impact a child's...
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