Psychological distress in parents of children with severe congenital heart disease: The impact of prenatal versus postnatal diagnosis

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 687-692

  Brosig, C L ^a   Whitstone, B N ^b   Frommelt, M A ^a   Frisbee, S J ^b   Leuthner, S R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 35648958695     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211807     Document Type: Article

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