Emotional and behavioural difficulties in children of parents with multiple sclerosis: A controlled study in Greece

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 309-318

  Diareme, Stavroula ^a   Tsiantis, John ^a   Kolaitis, Gerasimos ^a   Ferentinos, Spyros ^a   Tsalamanios, Emmanuel ^a   Paliokosta, Elena ^a   Anasontzi, Sophia ^a   Lympinaki, Eirini ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris C ^a   Voumvourakis, Costas ^b   Romer, Georg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children's psychopathology; Somatically ill parents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYSICAL DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SOMATIZATION; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33748093546     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-006-0534-7     Document Type: Article

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