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- Title
Post-traumatic stress symptoms in childhood brain tumour survivors and their parents.
- Authors
Bruce, M.; Gumley, D.; Isham, L.; Fearon, P.; Phipps, K.
- Abstract
This study aimed to investigate post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in childhood brain tumour survivors and their parents. A further aim was to explore the relationship between objective illness parameters, parent-child interactions, coping styles and PTSS. A cross-sectional correlational design was employed. Fifty-two childhood brain tumour survivors, aged 8-16, and 52 parents completed a battery of questionnaires designed to assess quality of parent-child interactions, monitoring and blunting attentional coping styles and PTSS. Over one-third (35%) of survivors and 29% of their parents reported severe levels of PTSS (suggestive of post-traumatic stress disorder 'caseness'). Increased parent-child conflict resolution for survivors and number of tumour recurrences for parents independently predicted the variance in PTSS. For a substantial proportion of brain tumour survivors and their parents the process of survivorship is a considerably distressing experience.
- Subjects
POST-traumatic stress; POST-traumatic stress disorder; BRAIN tumors; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTS of children with mental illness; CROSS-sectional method; STATISTICAL correlation; PATIENTS; ANALYSIS of variance; PARENTS; T-test (Statistics)
- Publication
Child: Care, Health & Development, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 2, p244
- ISSN
0305-1862
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2214.2010.01164.x