Short-term psychiatric adjustment of children and their parents following meningococcal disease

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-43

  Shears, Daniel ^a   Nadel, Simon ^b   Gledhill, Julia ^a   Garralda, M Elena ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Critical care; Meningococcal; Parents; Psychiatric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZED ADOLESCENT; PARENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LONDON; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19044376579     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000144705.81825.EE     Document Type: Article

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