Post-traumatic growth in parents after a child's admission to intensive care: Maybe Nietzsche was right?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 919-923

  Colville, Gillian ^a,b   Cream, Penelope ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Parents; Post traumatic growth; Post traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL STRESSOR SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STRESS; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENTS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349153972     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1444-1     Document Type: Article

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